different between covering vs rooftop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?v????/

Etymology 1

Present participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) +? -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).

Verb

covering

1. present participle of cover

Etymology 2

From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) +? -ing.

Noun

covering (countable and uncountable, plural coverings)

1. (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
2. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.

Derived terms

• face covering
• head covering

Translations

References

English

Etymology

roof +? top

Noun

rooftop (plural rooftops)

1. (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof.
   • 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades

     Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
2. The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
   • 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts

     The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.

Hypernyms

• roof

Derived terms

• rooftop of the world, an epithet of Tibet
• rooftopper
• rooftopping
• shout from the rooftops

Related terms

Translations

References

• “rooftop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.