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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary dome
ETYMOLOGY French, Italian, & Latin; French dôme dome, cathedral, from Italian duomo cathedral, from Medieval Latin domus church, from Latin, house; akin to Greek domos house, Sanskrit dam DATE 1513 1. archaic : a stately building : mansion 2. a large hemispherical roof or ceiling 3. a natural formation or structure that resembles the dome or cupola of a building 4. a form of crystal composed of planes parallel to a lateral axis that meet above in a horizontal edge like a roof 5. an upward fold in rock whose sides dip uniformly in all directions 6. a roofed sports stadium 7. a person's head
verb (domed ; dom·ing) DATE 1876 transitive verb 1. to cover with a dome 2. to form into a dome intransitive verb : to swell upward or outward like a dome English Etymology dome "round, vaulted roof," 1656, from Fr. dome, from Prov. doma,from Gk. doma "house, housetop" (especially a style of roof from the east), related to domos "house" (see domestic). In the Middle Ages, Ger. dom and It. duomo were used for "cathedral" (on the notion of "God's house"), so Eng. began to use this word in the sense "cupola," an architectural feature characteristic of It.cathedrals. Used in U.S. also with ref. to round summits of mountains. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 dome dome / dEum; NAmE doum / noun1. a round roof with a circular base 穹顶；圆屋顶: the dome of St Paul's Cathedral 圣保罗大教堂的穹顶 2. a thing or a building shaped like a dome 圆顶状物；穹状建筑物: his bald dome of a head 他圆溜溜的秃顶 3. (NAmE) (in names 用于名称) a sports stadium whose roof is shaped like a dome 圆顶体育场: the Houston Astrodome 休斯敦阿斯托洛圆顶运动场 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged dome I. \ˈdōm\ noun (-s) Etymology: French, Italian, & Latin; French dôme dome, cathedral, from Italian duomo cathedral, from Medieval Latin domus church, from Latin, house — more at timber 1. a. archaic : a stately building : mansion b. : resort , retreat — used especially with pleasure < the pleasure domes of Reno or Las Vegas — Jack Goodman > 2. : a vaulted circular roof or ceiling 3. obsolete : a cathedral church 4. : a natural formation, a structure, or a projecting part arched and rounded that has some resemblance to a cupola or vaulted ceiling of a building: a. : the upper part of a reverberatory furnace b. : the roof of a vaulted cavern c. : a rounded mountaintop or vast mound of ice d. : an overhanging hemispherical space or area < the sun seeming to hang in a coppery dome > < projected on the dome of the planetarium > e. : the vertical chamber on the top of a steam boiler or of a tank car f. : the hemispherical or cylindrical roof of an astronomical observatory providing for rotation of the observing slit to any part of the sky g. (1) : a glass-enclosed compartment built into the roof of a railroad car to permit upper-deck passengers an unobstructed view in every direction < adopted the dome car as standard equipment > (2) : astrodome h. : the arching periphery of the carcass of a pneumatic tire i. : a concave approximately quarter-spherical usually plaster structure backing and overhanging a theatrical stage 5. : the back inside cap or case of a jointed-case watch 6. a. : a form of crystal composed of planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge like a roof — see brachydome , clinodome , macrodome , orthodome b. : a form of crystal composed of only two faces intersecting along and astride of a symmetry plane regardless of the orientation of the line of their intersection 7. a. : a doubly plunging anticline that is broad in comparison with its length and consequently approximately circular or elliptical in plan : a quaquaversal fold < the Ozark dome is many miles in diameter > < some small and steep-sided salt domes in Louisiana > < at the top of a dome oil and gas may have collected > b. : a rock mass in domical form < the granite domes of the Yosemite > c. : a rounded snow peak d. : a broad gently sloping volcano — called also shield volcano, volcanic dome 8. : a rounded isolated elevation on the ocean bottom at depths greater than 100 fathoms 9. chiefly slang : a person's head 10. : a ball-shaped or mushroom-shaped clothing accessory: a. : a raised button b. : snap fastener 11. : a rounded-arch element in the wave tracing in an electroencephalogram II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) transitive verb 1. : to cover with or as if with a dome 2. : to press, bend, or thrust up into a dome < upward pressure from underlying magma domes the surface — Journal of Geology > < shaping the cover with a doming mallet > intransitive verb 1. : to swell upward or outward like a dome 2. : to arch overhead in a dome (as of the sky) III. noun : a roofed sports stadium |
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