Definitions

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  • adjective Having a roof.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of roof.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination)

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Examples

  • It still is good business to have Batata Vada Sambar on the menu for these tin roofed eateries in the villages of Maharashtra the Vadas get washed down with special kadak (over boiled strong tea).

    Vada Sambar not Medu Anjali 2008

  • It still is good business to have Batata Vada Sambar on the menu for these tin roofed eateries in the villages of Maharashtra the Vadas get washed down with special kadak (over boiled strong tea).

    Archive 2008-08-01 Anjali 2008

  • The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.

    Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified 2006

  • The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.

    Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified 2006

  • The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.

    Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified 2006

  • The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.

    Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified 2006

  • The house in which Bardo lived was situated on the side of the street nearest the hill, and was one of those large sombre masses of stone building pierced by comparatively small windows, and surmounted by what may be called a roofed terrace or loggia, of which there are many examples still to be seen in the venerable city.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • He was in some kind of roofed-in courtyard, only illuminated by the headlamps of the car.

    The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

  • So saying, Peter walked into a kind of roofed over-room, open only at the front, and examined the floor with his lantern, stamping occasionally to detect any hollowness in the ground.

    In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

  • He roofed the puck into the net, sending the water bottle flying behind Calgary goaltender Henrik Karlsson for the final Capitals tally.

    David Steckel records first penalty-shot tally for finishing touch on Caps' 7-2 win over Flames Katie Carrera 2010

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