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bean, block [slang], head, mazard (or mazzard) [chiefly dialect], nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut [slang], pate, poll
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the dome of the Capitol building The team's new stadium is a dome.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Niu delivered a perfect performance in her NBA debut, tossing her four bowls cleanly atop her dome. — Jake Fischer, SI.com, "How Red Panda Became the NBA's Favorite Halftime Performer," 28 Aug. 2019 Constellations come in many sizes, shapes and flavors in our celestial dome. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, "Sky Watch: Lyra the Lyre may be a small constellation, but it has a big story," 18 Aug. 2019 Most elements of the addition will be no higher than the lower level of the original temple building, so as to allow its dome to continue as a dominant visual presence, Reed said. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "CWRU nears construction kickoff this fall for Maltz Performing Arts Center expansion," 1 Aug. 2019 Their dome, woven upright, was skewed and pointy at the top, rather than round. — New York Times, "‘The logic of the weave’," 29 July 2019 With its copper dome, pinnacles, modern statues, murals, and colorful interior, the cathedral serves not just as a tourist attraction but one of the most important places of worship in the entire Horn of Africa nation. — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, "The British suffragette who was crowned an “honorary” Ethiopian," 25 June 2019 The farm consists of a pair of greenhouses — a geodesic dome and a hangar-like tunnel — draped in plastic sheeting. — Markian Hawryluk, CNN, "In one of the country's 'healthiest' states, obesity plagues black and Hispanic people," 3 Aug. 2019 For example, architects might study the domes and internal structures of seashells to design the curves of bridges. — Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, "5 futuristic tech ideas that might actually happen (and 5 that won’t) — predictions from Comic-Con 2019," 19 July 2019 Jutting out of the vast, barren Sonoran Desert and reachable only by car, Arcosanti's domes and curved structures look like something imagined up by a science fiction writer. — Fox News, "This unfinished Arizona 'city of the future' has a problem," 7 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dome.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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