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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOME, n. [Gr., a house, a plain roof. L.]
1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.
2. A cathedral.
3. In architecture, a spherical roof, raised over the middle of a building; a cupola.
4. In chemistry, the upper part of a furnace, resembling a hollow hemisphere or small dome. This form serves to reflect or reverberate a part of the flame; hence these furnaces are called reverberating furnaces.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome]
3: a stadium that has a roof [syn: dome, domed stadium, covered stadium]
4: a hemispherical roof

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French, Italian, & Latin; French dôme dome, cathedral, from Italian duomo cathedral, from Medieval Latin domus church, from Latin, house; akin to Greek domos house, Sanskrit dam Date: 1513 1. archaic a stately building ; mansion 2. a large hemispherical roof or ceiling 3. a natural formation or structure that resembles the dome or cupola of a building 4. a form of crystal composed of planes parallel to a lateral axis that meet above in a horizontal edge like a roof 5. an upward fold in rock whose sides dip uniformly in all directions 6. a roofed sports stadium 7. a person's head • domal adjective II. verb (domed; doming) Date: 1876 transitive verb 1. to cover with a dome 2. to form into a dome intransitive verb to swell upward or outward like a dome

U.S. Military Dictionary

See spray dome.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a rounded vault as a roof, with a circular, elliptical, or polygonal base; a large cupola. b the revolving openable hemispherical roof of an observatory. 2 a a natural vault or canopy (of the sky, trees, etc.). b the rounded summit of a hill etc. 3 Geol. a dome-shaped structure. 4 sl. the head. 5 poet. a stately building. --v.tr. (usu. as domed adj.) cover with or shape as a dome. Derivatives: domelike adj. Etymology: F d{ocirc}me f. It. duomo cathedral, dome f. L domus house

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dome Dome, n. [See Doom.] Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dome Dome, n. [F. d[^o]me, It. duomo, fr. L. domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. ? house, ? to build, and E. timber. See Timber.] 1. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. --Pope. 2. (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale. Note: ``The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola.'' --Am. Cyc. 3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. 4. (Crystallog.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form. Note: If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. --Dana.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cupola Cu"po*la (k?"p?-l?), n.; pl. Cupolas (-l?z). [It. cupola, LL. cupula, cuppula (cf. L. cupula little tub). fr. cupa, cuppa, cup; cf. L. cupa tub. So called on account of its resemblance to a cup turned over. See Cup, and cf. Cupule.] 1. (Arch.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome. 2. A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern. 3. A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works. 4. A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance. 5. (Anat.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(domes) 1. A dome is a round roof. ...the dome of St Paul's cathedral. N-COUNT 2. A dome is any object that has a similar shape to a dome. ...the dome of the hill. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Cupola, tholus, spherical vaulted roof. 2. (Poetical.) Building, fabric, house. 3. (Rare.) Cathedral, minster, dom.

Moby Thesaurus

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