dome

Significado (inglés)

1. A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
2. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
3. (informal) A person's head.
4. (slang) head, oral sex
5. (obsolete) A building; a house; an edifice.
6. 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.

cupola

vault

arch

canopy

bean

covered stadium

domed stadium

vaulted ceiling

priestly minstrel’s reed hood

vaulted roof

sound bow

sloping surfaces

grade surface

false ogive

arched roof

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dəʊm/

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.