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Synonyms: Noun
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
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 2019 The Night Skies program uses Starlab, an inflatable planetarium dome and projector system. — courant.com, "Community News For The Manchester Edition," 5 June 2019 The company has a giant warehouse crammed with C-47 parts, and the restoration required pieces like a drift meter, a celestial dome, and a complete navigator’s station. — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, "The Return of 'That’s All, Brother': The Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion," 4 June 2019 The Catalog gave readers access to plans for Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and guides to everything from cheap travel to boatbuilding. — Fred Turner, Harper's magazine, "Machine Politics," 10 Jan. 2019 It would be finely layered and shaped like a pyramid, dome or perhaps even a perfect cone — a form difficult to explain without invoking biology. — Quanta Magazine, "World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks," 22 Oct. 2018 The reason for the hotter-than-usual August weather is a stubborn dome of high pressure that has been over the South this week. — Leigh Morgan, al, "It’s looking like a heatwave for Alabama starting this weekend," 9 Aug. 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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