different between roof vs uppermost

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?f/, /??f/
• ,
• Rhymes: -?f, -u?f

Etymology 1

From Middle English rof, from Old English hr?f (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?f? (“roof”).

Noun

roof (plural roofs or rooves)

1. (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
2. The top external level of a building.
3. The upper part of a cavity.
4. (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
5. (climbing) An overhanging rock wall

Synonyms

• (cover at top of building): rooftop, tect (obsolete, rare), thatch
• (in a cavity): ceiling

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).

Verb

roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)

1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
3. (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
4. (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.

Derived terms

• roofer
• unroof

Translations

Anagrams

• Foor

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch roof, from Old Dutch *r?f, *rouf, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz. More at robe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?f/
• Hyphenation: roof
• Rhymes: -o?f

Noun

roof m (plural roven, diminutive roofje n)

1. robbery, robbing, banditry, rapine

Derived terms

• bankroof
• broodroof
• lijkroof
• roofdier
• roofridder

Related terms

• rover

Verb

roof

1. first-person singular present indicative of roven
2. imperative of roven

Middle English

Noun

roof

1. Alternative form of rof

English

Etymology

upper +? -most

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?m??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??mo?st/

Adjective

uppermost (not comparable)

1. At or nearest the top of something.
   • 2005, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Tax reform: hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 8, 2005, Volume 36, Issues 109-123

     Well, to me, if you are restricting it to economic policy — because I can surely think of some noneconomic policy concerns that are more uppermost in my mind.

   • 2015, Lawrence A. Pervin, Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

     As a result, it is not always an easy matter to evaluate, as an outsider, the effectiveness of a life-task strategy (i.e., sometimes the objective indicators of success and failure do not coincide with the goals most uppermost in a person's mind).

Synonyms

• upmost

Antonyms

• nethermost

Translations

Adjective

uppermost

1. (rare) superlative form of upper: most upper

Adverb

uppermost (not comparable)

1. In the highest position.