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dome

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noun/dəʊm/
  1. 1

    A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.

    • geodesic dome
  2. 2

    Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.broadly

    • a cake dome
    • lava dome
  3. 3

    A person's head.informal

    • Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
    • Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
  4. 4

    head, oral sexslang

    • Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
  5. 5

    A building; a house; an edifice.obsoletepoetic

    • pleasure dome
  6. 6

    Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.broadly

    • steam dome
  7. 7

    A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

  8. 8

    A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.

  9. 9

    A press stud or snap fastener.

verb/dəʊm/
  1. 1

    To give a domed shape to.transitive

    • The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
    • […] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]
  2. 2

    To shoot or hit in the head.colloquialslangtransitive

    • That guy just got domed!
  3. 3

    To perform fellatio on.UScolloquialslang

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