hip roof
- noun
- /hɪp ruːf/
- Specialized
:
techo a cuatro aguas
- Building categories are defined based on architectural features and are assumed to perform similarly in hurricanes and have similar value (e.g., one-story home with a garage and hip roof).
Examples
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The contractor explained that a hip roof is more stable in high winds compared to a gable roof.
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The hip roof of this screened porch also includes a finished hip ceiling on the interior of this lovely space.
Blog text (24) -
No houses were visible save a few hip roofs sticking out of the lush vegetation, between red flamboyants.
Fiction book (2002) -
The house has a beautiful hip roof that enhances its architectural appeal.
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Many homeowners prefer a hip roof because it allows for better rainwater drainage.
Synonyms
A roof that slopes down on all four sides toward the walls
How Steep
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Morphology
The meaning 'a roof with all sides sloping downward' is directly compositional from 'hip' (the external intersection of sloping roof planes) + 'roof' and simply names a specific kind of roof. This is a descriptive, technical compound rather than an idiom, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hip roof comes from the small sloping parts of a roof called hips, where two roof sides meet and slope down to the walls. So a hip roof is a roof with 'all sides sloping down', which helps it hold up better in wind.