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roofing meaning

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  • NounPLroofingsSUF-ing
    1. Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles.
      1. 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.
  • Verb
    1. present participle of roof.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Feuars and tenants, likewise, had right to cut and carry off sod, called feal and divot, from the moors and commons, for building and roofing their cottages and hovels, and other purposes;
        • f anyone asks questions, they'll fold up faster than a gypsy roofing company. ‎
        • is nail gun fired about twenty roofing nails a minute. ‎

    Meaning of roofing for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "roofing" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Morphemes
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -ing
        • Nouns
          • Countable nouns
            • Singularia tantum
              • Uncountable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Present participles
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