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Terrace and Roof Definitions

Terrace

A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.

Roof

The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.

Terrace

A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.

Roof

The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself
Three generations living under one roof.

Terrace

An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
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Roof

The top covering of something
The roof of a car.

Terrace

A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top
Turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.

Roof

The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure
The roof of the mouth.

Terrace

A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.

Roof

The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling
A roof on prices is needed to keep our customers happy.
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Terrace

A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.

Roof

To furnish with a roof or cover.

Terrace

A section of row houses.

Roof

(architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
The roof was blown off by the tornado.

Terrace

Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially along the top or slope of a hill.
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Roof

The top external level of a building.
Let's go up to the roof.

Terrace

A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.

Roof

The upper part of a cavity.
The palate is the roof of the mouth.

Terrace

To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.

Roof

(mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

Terrace

To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.

Roof

(climbing) An overhanging rock wall.

Terrace

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment

Roof

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.

Terrace

A platform that extends outwards from a building.

Roof

To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

Terrace

(agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.

Roof

To put into prison, to bird.

Terrace

(geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.

Roof

(transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.

Terrace

A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.

Roof

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

Terrace

A single house in such a group.

Roof

That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
The flowery roofShowered roses, which the morn repaired.

Terrace

The standing area of a sports stadium.

Roof

The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

Terrace

The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.

Roof

To cover with a roof.
I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings that have not been roofed with vaults or arches.

Terrace

To provide something with a terrace.

Roof

To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
Here had we now our country's honor roofed.

Terrace

To form something into a terrace.

Roof

A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building

Terrace

A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

Roof

Protective covering on top of a motor vehicle

Terrace

A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

Roof

Provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

Terrace

A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

Terrace

A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

Terrace

A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

Terrace

To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.
Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves.

Terrace

Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

Terrace

A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

Terrace

A row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face);
Grosvenor Terrace

Terrace

Provide (a house) with a terrace;
We terrassed the country house

Terrace

Make into terraces as for cultivation;
The Incas terraced their mountainous land

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