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noun
A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: railroad
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
A type of furnace used for smelting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, dated
Topics: railways, transport
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noun
A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a roof in the form of a dome
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dome
noun
a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: furnace
History
Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over. Doublet of cupula.
Across languages
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