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# ceiling

«ceiling» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The inside surface at the top of a room, above your head** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ceiling, ceilings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The inside surface at the top of a room, above your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#m1)

2) An upper limit that something cannot go above, like a price ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#m2)

3) The height of the lowest clouds, important for planes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, lights, fans and smoke alarms are fixed on ceilings; smoke rises, so smoke alarms go on the ceiling, and you should crawl low under smoke in a fire. In maths, room problems use the ceiling: the area of the ceiling is the same as the floor in a box-shaped room; height from floor to ceiling. In science, warm air rises towards the ceiling. Phrases: "on the ceiling", "hit the ceiling" (get very angry), "glass ceiling" (an unfair limit on getting ahead), "ceiling fan", "floor to ceiling".

### examples

- A spider was crawling on the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x1)
- The smoke alarm is on the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x2)
- The ceiling is 2.5 metres high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x3)
- We painted the ceiling white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x4)
- Dad hit the ceiling when he saw the mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x5)
- The ceiling fan kept the room cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x6)
- Bookshelves went from floor to ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x7)
- In a fire, smoke collects at the ceiling first, so stay low. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x8)
- Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/#x9)

### note

Spelling trap: "ei" after c — c-e-i-l-i-n-g ("i before e, except after c"). Do not confuse with "sealing" (closing tightly), which sounds the same. In maths, in a rectangular room, ceiling area = length × width, the same as the floor.

### In the corpora

- [Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/13/)
- [«i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/16/)
- [It is hot and lighter than the cool air, so it rises and gathers at the ceiling first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/34-fire-at-home/3/)
- [Hot smoke is less dense than cool air, so it rises and fills a room from the ceiling down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/21/)
- [Water from an overflowing bath can leak through the floor into the ceiling below and onto electrical wiring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ceiling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ceiling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.