Ceiling vs Superior - What's the difference?
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The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 The upper limit of an object or action.
(aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
(mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
(nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
Higher in quality.
Higher in rank.
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, title= More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
Located above.
# (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
# (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
# (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
# (typography) Printed in superscript.
Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .
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Ceiling is a related term of superior.
As nouns the difference between ceiling and superior
is that ceiling is the surface that bounds the upper limit of a room while superior is a person of higher rank or quality.As a verb ceiling
is .As an adjective superior is
higher in quality.ceiling
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceiling ed, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Derived terms
* bamboo ceiling * cathedral ceiling * ceilingward * dropped ceiling * flight ceiling * glass ceiling * hit the ceilingAntonyms
* floorVerb
(head)superior
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Alternative forms
* superiour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
- A genus is superior to a species.
- the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image
- a superior figure or letter
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.