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the only thing standing between you and the entire sky's mood swings
means the structure that covers the top of a building, sheltering everything beneath it from weather and sky.
from From Old English 'hrof,' meaning roof or ceiling — a solidly Germanic word, with cousins like Dutch 'roef' (a cabin or covering). Curiously, English mostly stands alone here: while neighboring languages reached for words tied to 'cover' or 'thatch,' English kept this older, stubbier root and never let it go.
- green roofs
- living plants on top cool buildings and survive bombs
- world record
- hottest roof flip clears 360 spins in seconds
- ancient tech
- thatched roofs last decades and shed rain perfectly
- raise the roof
- old idiom from literally lifting timber-frame roof beams
- solar shift
- roofs now generate power, not just block weather
guggenheim museum bilbao roof — titanium-clad curved roof designed by frank gehry, completed 1997 in spain
sydney opera house shells — distinctive interlocking vaulted roof sections, 1,056,006 swedish-made tiles, opened 1973
taj mahal dome — white marble dome roof 73 meters high, built 1632-1653 in agra, india