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Webster 1913 Edition
Ceiling
1.
(Arch.)
(a)
The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
(b)
The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
2.
(Naut.)
The inner planking of a vessel.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ceiling
CEILING
,ppr.
CEILING
,Noun.
1.
The covering which overlays the inner roof of a building, or the timbers which form the top of a room. This covering may be of boards, or of lath and plastering. Hence ceiling is used for the upper part of a room.2.
In ship building, the inside planks of a ship.Definition 2024
ceiling
ceiling
English
Noun
ceiling (plural ceilings)
- The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- the dining room had an ornate ceiling
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- The upper limit of an object or action.
- price ceilings
- (aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
- (mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
- the ceiling of 4.5 is 5, the ceiling of -4.5 is -4
- (nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
Derived terms
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Translations
upper limit of room
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altitude
smallest integer
inner planking of a vessel
Verb
ceiling
- present participle of ceil