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ROOFING MATERIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roofing material mean?
• ROOFING MATERIAL (noun)
The noun ROOFING MATERIAL has 1 sense:
1. building material used in constructing roofs
Familiarity information: ROOFING MATERIAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Building material used in constructing roofs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("roofing material" is a kind of...):
building material (material used for constructing buildings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roofing material"):
roofing paper; tar paper (a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing)
slate; slating (thin layers of rock used for roofing)
thatch (plant stalks used as roofing material)
roofing tile; tile (a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing)
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