Definition of "dome"

dome

/dəʊm/

noun
plural domes
1. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
2. (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
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  The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as a dome of high pressure, extends from California up through areas in Canada’s Arctic territories and was worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.
  2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, in The Guardian‎
3. (informal) A person's head.
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  Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
  1962, Myles Rudge (lyrics and music), “Right Said Fred”
  Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phoneChilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
  2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs
4. (slang) head, oral sex
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  I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones,Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.
  2005, “Georgia”, performed by Ludacris
  Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
  2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins
5. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
  Quotations
  Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
  1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey
6. (by extension) 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.
7. (crystallography) 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. (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
verb
third-person singular simple present domes, present participle doming, simple past and past participle domed
1. (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
  Quotations
  The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
  1814, Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, in The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, page lix
  […] 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 […]
  1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana, page 24
2. (transitive, colloquial, slang) To shoot in the head.
3. (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.

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