dome

«dome» in Mova's school dictionary: a round roof shaped like half of a ball — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dome, domes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A dome is a round roof shaped like half of a ball. tree →

2) A dome is anything shaped like half a ball, such as a rounded hill or the top of a head. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons domes sit on cathedrals, mosques, palaces and capitol buildings; in science and maths a dome is a half-sphere, a strong shape that spreads weight evenly. Phrases: «a glass dome», «a snow dome», «the dome of the sky».

examples

• The cathedral has a huge golden dome. tree →
• We looked up at the painted ceiling inside the dome. tree →
• An igloo is a dome made of snow blocks. tree →
• The tent was shaped like a dome. tree →
• A dome is a strong shape because it spreads the weight all round. tree →
• The baby's head felt like a soft little dome. tree →
• The cake was covered with a clear plastic dome. tree →
• He went in, and there was a round cave, like the dome of St. Paul's. tree →

note

Countable: a dome, two domes. Rhymes with «home»; do not confuse with «doom». A dome is three-dimensional; its flat outline is a semicircle, but the dome itself is half a sphere.

In the corpora

• Gold almost never reacts with oxygen or sulphur, so it does not tarnish and is used on domes and picture frames.
• Romans were great engineers, building aqueducts for water, arches, domes and concrete.
• The Byzantine emperor Justinian built the great church of Hagia Sophia with its huge dome and collected Roman law into one book.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dome» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.