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dome

noun
/dəʊm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.

  1. calqued from οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας
  2. derived from domus (ecclesiae)
  3. derived from duomo
  4. borrowed from dome

Definitions

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

    • geodesic dome

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

    • a cake dome
    • lava dome
    • 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.

  3. A person's head.

    • 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
    • I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. head, oral sex

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

    2. A building

      A building; a house; an edifice.

      • pleasure dome
      • Approach the dome, the social banquet share.

    3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a…

      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.

      • steam dome

    4. A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal…

      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.

    5. A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one…

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

    6. A press stud or snap fastener.

    7. To give a domed shape to.

      • 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 […]

    8. To shoot in the head.

      • That guy just got domed!
      • You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome
      • A wise man once said six bullets is more than enough to kill anything that moves. But unlike that man, I'd rather not spend half the fight slowly reloading while getting domed by enemy gunfire.

    9. To perform fellatio on.

    10. Alternative form of Dhome.

      • To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]

    11. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dome02bowl03dish04depressed05clinical06venues07venue08arena

A definitional loop anchored at dome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at dome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA