Thesaurus: dome

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1. n. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
2. n. A cupola formed on a large scale.
3. n. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
4. n. 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.
5. n. Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
6. n. a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
7. n. informal terms for a human head
8. n. a stadium that has a roof
9. n. a hemispherical roof
10. 1. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope. 2. (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale. Note: "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola." Am. Cyc. 3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. 4. (Crystallog.) 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. Note: If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Dana. Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] Chaucer.
11. n:100 n. a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward n. a stadium that has a roof n. a hemispherical roof