roofing

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English roof

English -ing

English roofing

From roof + -ing (“material, collection”).

Noun

roofing (countable and uncountable, plural roofings)

1. Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles.
   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

2. The process of constructing a roof or roofs.
3. A way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers.

Derived terms

• ecoroofing
• roofing bone
• roofing nail
• roofing tin

Translations

material used on the outside of a roof

• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏦᏛᏙᏗ (galitsodvdodi)
• Danish: tagdækning c, beklædning c, tagbelægning c
• German: Bedachungsmaterial n
• Hungarian: tetőfedő anyag, ^{(please verify)} fedél (hu), ^{(please verify)} födém (hu)
• Russian: кро́вля (ru) f (króvlja)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kšyśe n

the process of constructing a roof or roofs

• Danish: tagdækning c, beklædning c, tagbelægning c
• Hungarian: tetőfedés (hu)

a way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers

• Russian: ру́финг (ru) m (rúfing), ру́ферство (ru) n (rúferstvo)

Etymology 2

Verb

roofing

1. present participle and gerund of roof

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