to dome
2
6.5
- verb
- /doʊm/
- Specialized
:
abovedar
- He was short and stocky, his oiled hair a thin gesture above a pasty, domed forehead.
- dome the building
- dome the silver
Examples
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Under the Gervais St. bridge, our voices domed like a cathedral. Shoulders dipped in sunlight, a baptism of sorts.
Academic text (2015) -
After the initial composting phase, the containers are moved to a 440-foot by 72-foot wide building with a domed fabric roof.
Academic text (2001) -
GRAND ATRIUM - NIGHT: Finnegan enters the glass-domed atrium.
Fiction book (1998) -
Moreover, like everything else in fire-domed Matherion, the entire room was sheathed in opalescent mother-of-pearl.
Fiction book (1993) -
Inge gently gestured in the air around her, palms downward, as if patting the large-domed heads of the wolf cubs.
Fiction book (1999) -
Here, three figures are constructing a wall of stone or brick; above them are domed and gabled structures, turrets, and, above all, a crenellated wall with five towers.
Academic text (1991) -
Firefighters saw the neighborhood through different eyes than when they're wearing their wide-brimmed, domed helmets, heavy respirator packs, and fire-resistant gear.
Blog text (30) -
The house was on the same block as the yellow stucco Lutheran church with its open belfry and gold-domed cupola, which had been built many years before for the Swedish-speaking gentry.
Fiction book (1992) -
A holy man, his voice sonorous against the screaming background, led a gaggle of students toward the blue-domed mosque of Jami Zakariyah, where he would lecture in the courtyard.
Fiction book (1994) -
The artisan carefully domed the metal sheet into a beautiful rounded shape.
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.8
A strong, light building shaped like part of a ball made from many triangles
- Jargon
1
6.4
A round roof on top of a building that holds a telescope for looking at the sky or surrounding area
1
7.9
A large United States political corruption case in the early 1920s where government officials secretly leased oil land to companies
- Specialized
1
5.5
A rounded cover that protects a radar antenna and lets radio waves pass
- US
1
9.9
A 1920s US political scandal about secretly giving oil fields to private companies
- Specialized
A space under a dome where a soft sound made in one spot reaches another spot clearly
How Rounded
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb dome comes from the noun dome meaning a round roof, so to dome something is 'to shape it into a round, raised form'.