Dome vs Dote - What's the difference?
dome | dote |
(architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
(slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
* Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome . - , "Right Said Fred"
* I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome . - Ludacris
* Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
(obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
* Alexander Pope
Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
(crystallography) 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.
To be excessively fond of.
(archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
* Dryden
* South
(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
* Ted’s daughter is such a dote .
(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
As nouns the difference between dome and dote
is that dome is a structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola while dote is a darling, a cutie.As a verb dote is
to be excessively fond of.dome
English
(wikipedia dome)Noun
(en noun)- a cake dome
- Approach the dome , the social banquet share.
Derived terms
* chrome domeAnagrams
* ----dote
English
Alternative forms
* doat (obsolete)Verb
(dot)- Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
- Time has made you dote , and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
- He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Synonyms
* (to be fond of) adore, loveNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)