DOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dome mean? 

• DOME (noun)
  The noun DOME has 4 senses:

1. a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward

2. informal terms for a human head

3. a stadium that has a roof

4. a hemispherical roof

  Familiarity information: DOME used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for a human head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

attic; bean; bonce; dome; noggin; noodle

Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):

human head (the head of a human being)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A stadium that has a roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

covered stadium; dome; domed stadium

Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):

arena; bowl; sports stadium; stadium (a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A hemispherical roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dome" is a kind of...):

roof (a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dome"):

astrodome (a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations)

cupola (a roof in the form of a dome)

geodesic dome (a lightweight dome constructed of interlocking polygons; invented by R. Buckminster Fuller)

onion dome (a dome that is shaped like a bulb; characteristic of Russian and Byzantine church architecture)

pressure dome (a dome-shaped building that is pressurized)

whispering dome; whispering gallery (a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points)

 Context examples 

All they could see was a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a two-story dome embedded with 500 video cameras.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is clear and shaped like a dome.

(Corneal Disorders, NIH National Eye Institute)

Other researchers previously noted these domes' similarity in shape to volcanoes on Earth that erupted underneath ice.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

Cerealia Facula, in the center of the crater, consists of bright material covering a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) pit, within which sits a small dome.

(Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity, NASA)

Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A lesion having the shape of a dome.

(Dome-Shaped Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)

A dome structure at the center, covered in highly reflective material, has radial and concentric fractures on and around it.

(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)

Within there was a high and large hall, ornamented with Eastern decorations, which harmonized with the domes and minarets of the exterior.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Located in the Peruvian Andes, Ubinas has shown signs of an impending eruption since the mid-2013, highlighted by the appearance of a fresh lava dome in March 2014.

(Fresh lava arrives at Ubinas volcano, NASA)