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dome (iou) and periurethral abscess (medicine)


dome (iou)



dome noun & verb. E16.

A. noun.
I. A house.
A house, a Home; a stately building, a mansion. Now chiefly literary. E16.
Swift Sad charnel-house! a dismal dome, For which all mortals leave their Home.
A cathedral church. Cf. DOM noun3. L17-M18.
II. A hemispherical surface.
A rounded vault forming (the chief part of) the roof of a building, and having an elliptical or polygonal base; a large cupola. M17.
M. Girouard A tower capped by a green copper dome.
b. The revolving openable hemispherical roof of an astronomical observatory. M19.
c. A stadium with a domed roof. Cf. ASTRODOME (b). N. Amer. M20.
The vaulted roof of a cavern or natural hollow; the concave vault of the sky; a natural canopy of trees etc. E18.
J. L. Waten The high dome of light-blue sky.
A dome-shaped part of anything; a convex lid or cover. E18.
T. S. Eliot The egg's well-rounded dome.
b. The rounded summit of a natural object, as a mountain, hill, wave, etc. M19.
c. In full dome fastener. A press-stud consisting of a rounded portion which clips into a socket, used esp. as a fastener for gloves. E20.
The head. slang. L19.
Geology. A dome-shaped landform or underground structure. E20.
N. Calder Salt domes are favourite targets for oil prospectors.
Phrases: Dome of Silence (proprietary name for) a type of castor fitted to furniture.
Comb.: dome fastener: see sense 5c above; dome-headed adjective having a large rounded head; dome-light: with a dome-shaped cover or shade.
b. verb.
verb trans. Cover (as) with a dome. L19.
verb trans. Make dome-shaped. L19.
Mrs H. Ward The roof had been raised and domed.
verb intrans. Be or become dome-shaped. L19.
Scientific American A caldera whose floor has slowly domed upward in the millenniums since the eruption. Nature Towards the end of the Carboniferous period uplift..and doming of the region took place.

periurethral abscess (medicine)


periurethral abscess


An abscess involving the tissues around the urethra.