Crossword clues for ceil
ceil
- Put a roof overhead
- Provide with an overhead surface
- Provide an upper surface for
- Top off, as a room
- Provide with an upper surface
- Finish the overhead
- Do a plastering job
- Do a plaster job
- Wooden overlay
- Top off four walls
- Top a room
- Put in overhead squares
- Put a top on, as a room
- Put a roof on
- Provide a roof
- Plaster the roof of
- Overlay with plaster, perhaps
- Finish the top of, as a room
- Do overhead plastering
- Cover, as a room
- Cover the upper surface (a room)
- Barrier affecting women and minorities
- Overlay with wood or plaster
- Furnish with a lining
- Put a cover on
- Designer Chapman
- Plaster overhead
- Line, as a roof
- Furnish a lining
- Line the inside
- Overlay with boards or plaster
- Line a roof
- Top off a room
- Plaster, as a room cover
- Finish a room at the top
- Wainscot
- Plaster the walls
- Do a plasterer's job
- Do some plastering
- Line a ship with planking
- Cover, in a way
- Apply plaster
- Overlay with wood
- Provide with a roof
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ceil \Ceil\ (s[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ceiled (s[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Ceiling.] [From an older noun, fr. F. ciel heaven, canopy, fr. L. caelum heaven, vault, arch, covering; cf. Gr. koi^los hollow.]
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To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
The greater house he ceiled with fir tree.
--2 Chron. iii. 5 To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like. Etymology 2
n. (context poetic English) a ceiling
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ceil".
And the ceiling fair that rose aboon The white and feathery fleece of noon.
Tooe shot through it, flipping over to bounce off the ceiling and accelerating down through the short cabin toward the control section.
Parker even more when she bade me a simple adieu, and did not seek to impress upon me the virtues of this or that plow, the rakes and tines and blades of which were pendant from the ceiling in a Damoclean display.
She wanted to see Aerians sweeping the heights above, and Leontines prowling around the pillars that were placed beneath those heights, as if they held up not only ceiling but sky.
Clodius Afer, tilting his head to peer at the curving surface of the ceiling eighty feet above.
Clodius Afer said nonchalantly to the ceiling, where a yellow bead obediently sprang to life.
Nearly half of the ceiling had collapsed, and the resulting pile of polyp slivers had agglutinated in an alarmingly concave wall, as though the avalanche had halted half-way through.
The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.
Before she could say anything, however, Alise sat up in bed and cracked her head on the low ceiling.
There was a wall switch near the door, which Alker had turned on, then off, producing a temporary glare from ceiling lights.
Next to it was an octagonal room, the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of which were entirely covered with splendid Venetian glass, arranged in such a manner as to reflect on all sides every position of the amorous couple enjoying the pleasures of love.
The ceiling was so low that its beams were scarred by tracks of ancipital horn points - possibly a deliberate device to emphasize the fact that the Phagorian Guard were never dehorned.
The blue trollies had been replaced with hi-tech steely ones, the ceiling lowered, the faintly aquarial plate glass was replaced with storm-grey-one-way-see-through-no-glare which made even bright days dull ones.
Wrought iron candelabras set at either end of the room threw wavering aqueous reflections on to the ceiling.
He entered the next cellar and picked his way through a tumbled mass of ceiling that threw up sparks as his asbestos boots encountered it.