Roof vs Floor - What's the difference?
roof | floor |
The cover at the top of a building.
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The upper part of a cavity.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=John Sinnott, work=BBC Sport
, title= (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
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Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
A storey/story of a building.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
(label) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(label) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(label) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(label) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
(label) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
(label) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
To cover or furnish with a floor.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
* As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
* Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
To amaze or greatly surprise.
(colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
* I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
In mining terms the difference between floor and roof
is that floor is a horizontal, flat ore body while roof is the surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.As nouns the difference between floor and roof
is that floor is the bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room while roof is the cover at the top of a building.As verbs the difference between floor and roof
is that floor is to cover or furnish with a floor while roof is to cover or furnish with a roof.As a proper noun Roof is
a Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.roof
English
(wikipedia roof)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
- The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof / (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan, passage=As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.}}
Usage notes
* The plural rooves'' is uncommon and is considered by some to be incorrect, though it is parallel to more common plurals like ''hooves'' and ''staves. * In referring to the top of a building, refers both to the object itself (“the roof was blown off in the tornado”) and to the location of being on the roof (“it can be dangerous to go on the roof to fix the antenna”). In the later sense (of “location”) it is often used attributively, largely interchangeably with rooftop.Synonyms
* (cover at top of building) , thatch * (in a cavity)Derived terms
* barrel roof * built-up roof * burn the roof * coach roof * hip roof * hit the roof * mansard roof * raise the roof * rooftop * rooftree * shed roof * single-ply roof * steep-slope roof * sunroof * through the roofDerived terms
* roofer * unrooffloor
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor ; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor , where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
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Synonyms
* (right to speak) possession (UK)Antonyms
* ceilingVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, 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, […].}}