roofing vs shroud

roofing

noun
  • Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles. 

  • The process of constructing a roof or roofs. 

  • A way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers. 

shroud

noun
  • One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively. 

  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. 

  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. 

  • The branching top of a tree; foliage. 

  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. 

  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud. 

  • A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch. 

  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 

verb
  • To cover with a shroud. 

  • To take shelter or harbour. 

  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. 

  • To lop the branches from (a tree). 

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