Roof vs Rifle - What's the difference?
roof | rifle |
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.
A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
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, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html])
To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
To strike something with great power.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 28
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To commit robbery.
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
* Shakespeare
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
* Alexander Pope
To raffle.
As a proper noun roof
is (astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius and pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger black turtle.As a verb rifle is
.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 * unroofrifle
English
(wikipedia rifle)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}
Derived terms
* automatic rifle * rifled slug * riflingVerb
(rifl)- She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
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- (Bishop Hall)
- Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.
- Time shall rifle every youthful grace.
