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 Translation for 'roofs' from English to Dutch
NOUN   a roof | roofs / [rare or regional] rooves
VERB   to roof | roofed | roofed
roofing | roofs
daken {mv}roofs
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Translation for 'roofs' from English to Dutch

roofs
daken {mv}
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Usage Examples English
  • Green roofs are roofs that are partially or completely covered with plants or other vegetation.
  • Roofs in Scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory.
  • Green roofs improve air and water quality while reducing energy cost.
  • building’s roofs are planted with native plants, green roofs.
  • In North America, roofs are often covered with shingles made of asphalt, fiberglass and small gravel coating, but a wide range of materials are used.

  • On the Danish island of Læsø it has been used for thatching roofs.
  • Bengal roofs are sloping dome-shaped roofs with drawn-down corners associated with late Mughal and Rajput architecture of Northern India.
  • The stone core and western brick extension have separately framed hip roofs clad in painted corrugated iron.
  • Roofs made of cut turf (modern ones known as green roofs, traditional ones as sod roofs) have good insulating properties and are increasingly encouraged as a way of "greening" the Earth.
  • Using more than $2 million, CMHA was able to replace high-rise roofs at Wade Tower, Scranton Castle, Springbrook, and West Boulevard.

  • Unlike most Syrian villages at the time whose houses had flat roofs, the mud houses in Talbiseh had dome-shaped roofs.
  • Flexible solar modules can be used on curved roofs, or roofs where it does not make sense to install a rack mounting system.
  • Most Zollinger roofs were designed as a pointed saddleback roof, but examples of hipped roofs exist as well, for example the Protestant church in Lauta or the Römerhof in Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • An interesting feature is the multiple roofs that descend past the boundaries of the wall at a slope.
  • Historically, the roofing material was wood shingles made from beechwood but today in most regions baserri have tiled roofs.

  • Roofs with juanpeng ridges (...), known as [...] (...) or parabolic roofs, have been common in Chinese architecture since ancient times.
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