dome

(Anglès)

Noun

1. A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
2. (broadly) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
3. (informal) A person's head.
4. (slang) head, oral sex
5. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
6. (broadly) 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.
7. 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.
8. A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
9. A press stud or snap fastener.

Verb

1. (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
2. (colloquial, slang, transitive) To shoot in the head.
3. (US, colloquial, slang, transitive) To perform fellatio on.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dəʊm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb francès: dôme

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.

Conceptes

cúpula

dom

volta

coco

🥥

clepsa

Sinònims

cupola

vault

arch

canopy

bean

covered stadium

domed stadium

noggin

attic

head

noodle

crown

👑

bonce

vaulting

gizzard

mansion

microdot

nob

pants

pate

poll

ridge

roof

skull

💀

skullcap

spire

summit

thatch

top

🔝

tower

vaulted ceiling

yarmulke

priestly minstrel’s reed hood

vaulted roof

sound bow

sloping surfaces

grade surface

false ogive

acorn

kippah

arched roof

big top

bossing

bubble

bulb

💡

calotte

caput

chimney

cowl

cranium

Traduccions

Kuppel

cupola

cúpula

dôme

coupole

koepel

cúpula

kopuła

kubbe

domo

τρούλος

domo

قبة

gewelf

duomo