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DOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hemispherical roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):
roof (a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dome"):
astrodome (a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations)
cupola (a roof in the form of a dome)
geodesic dome (a lightweight dome constructed of interlocking polygons; invented by R. Buckminster Fuller)
onion dome (a dome that is shaped like a bulb; characteristic of Russian and Byzantine church architecture)
pressure dome (a dome-shaped building that is pressurized)
whispering dome; whispering gallery (a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A stadium that has a roof
Synonyms:
covered stadium; dome; domed stadium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):
arena; bowl; sports stadium; stadium (a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Informal terms for a human head
Synonyms:
attic; bean; bonce; dome; noggin; noodle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):
human head (the head of a human being)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):
concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb dome
Context examples:
He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This collar was placed over the dome of the balloon, and the hanging thongs were gathered together below, so that the pressure of any weight would be diffused over a considerable surface.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some 30 years ago, a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a mantle plume under Marie Byrd Land might explain regional volcanic activity and a topographic dome feature.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
Buckyballs, named because they resemble the geodesic domes built by architect Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in 1985 among the byproducts of laser vaporization of graphite in which the carbon atoms are arranged in sheets.
(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I propped my eyelids open with my two forefingers, and looked perseveringly at her as she sat at work; at the little bit of wax-candle she kept for her thread—how old it looked, being so wrinkled in all directions!—at the little house with a thatched roof, where the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass thimble on her finger; at herself, whom I thought lovely.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called flandona gagnole, or the astronomer’s cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Presently they heard a solemn Voice, that seemed to come from somewhere near the top of the great dome, and it said: I am Oz, the Great and Terrible.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
So as we took the curve of the road the little village vanished, and there in the dip of the Downs, past the spires of Patcham and of Preston, lay the broad blue sea and the grey houses of Brighton, with the strange Eastern domes and minarets of the Prince’s Pavilion shooting out from the centre of it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
