ROOFING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roofing mean? 

• ROOFING (noun)
  The noun ROOFING has 2 senses:

1. material used to construct a roof

2. the craft of a roofer

  Familiarity information: ROOFING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOFING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material used to construct a roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("roofing" is a kind of...):

material (things needed for doing or making something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The craft of a roofer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("roofing" is a kind of...):

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roofing"):

slating (the act of laying slates for a roof)

Holonyms ("roofing" is a part of...):

building; construction (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones)

Derivation:

roof (provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof)

 Context examples 

These chemicals are also made for use in many products, including coal tar, creosote, roofing tar, pesticides, mothballs, dandruff shampoos, and some medicines.

(PAH, NCI Dictionary)

Coal tar pitch is mainly used as a binder for aluminum smelting electrodes, but is also used in coating surfaces, in roofing materials, to impregnate and strengthen refractory brick and is used to produce pitch coke.

(Coal Tar Pitch, NCI Thesaurus)