dome : Idioms & Phrases


dome-shaped

  • adjective satellite having the shape of a dome
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geodesic dome

  • noun a lightweight dome constructed of interlocking polygons; invented by R. Buckminster Fuller
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observation dome

  • noun lookout consisting of a dome-shaped observatory
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onion dome

  • noun a dome that is shaped like a bulb; characteristic of Russian and Byzantine church architecture
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pressure dome

  • noun a dome-shaped building that is pressurized
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radar dome

  • noun a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves
    radome.
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Steam dome

  • (Steam Boilers), a chamber upon the top of the boiler, from which steam is conduced to the engine. See Illust. of Steam boiler, above.
Webster 1913

teapot dome

  • noun a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
    Teapot Dome.
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teapot dome scandal

  • noun a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
    Teapot Dome.
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whispering dome

  • noun a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points
    whispering gallery.
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  • one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.
Webster 1913