ceiling
US /ˈsilɪŋ/
・UK /ˈsi:lɪŋ/
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n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)Top part of a room above your head
I am so tall I can touch the ceiling in this room
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)Greatest level that is allowed; limit
The price ceiling for these new houses is set at a quarter of a million dollars
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)The height above the ground of the lowest layer of clouds
The ceiling was low, making flying dangerous
v.t.Transitive VerbTo round a number up to the nearest integer
The function will ceiling the value to the nearest integer
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)A function that rounds a number up to the nearest integer
Use the ceiling function to round up the number
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)The maximum altitude at which an aircraft can maintain a specified rate of climb under standard conditions.
The aircraft has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet.
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)An invisible barrier that prevents someone, especially a woman or member of a minority group, from advancing to the highest levels of an organization.
She felt like she had hit a glass ceiling in her career.
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)A limit on the amount of money that can be borrowed.
The debt ceiling must be raised to avoid a government shutdown.
n. (c./u.)Noun (Countable/Uncountable)The material used to form a ceiling.
The ceiling was made of plaster.
v.t.Transitive VerbTo provide a room with a ceiling.
They are ceiling the room with plasterboard.
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Passenger - Let Her Go ( cover by J.Fla )
- You're staring at the ceiling in the dark, same old empty feeling in your heart.
You're staring at the ceiling in the dark, same old empty feeling in your heart.
- Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Fidget Spinner Haters!
- You can use it to draw the perfect circle, the perfect flower, brush your teeth faster, get some spinners on your rims, you know, look like a baller, or like a ceiling fan for really tiny people, a lazy Susan for really lazy people, test your eyesight.
You can use it to draw the perfect circle, the perfect flower, brush your teeth faster, get some spinners on your rims, you know, look like a baller, or like a ceiling fan for really tiny people, a lazy Susan for really lazy people, test your eyesight.
- Or like, a ceiling fan for really tiny people?
Or like, a ceiling fan for really tiny people?
Thieves take $30 million in one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history
- Sources telling CNN the burglars broke through the roof, bypassed the alarms, entered the vault by cutting through the ceiling and then exited the building by breaking through a rear wall.
Sources telling CNN the burglars broke through the roof, bypassed the alarms, entered the vault by cutting through the ceiling and then exited the building by breaking through a rear wall.
- by cutting through the ceiling
by cutting through the ceiling
Sofia The First - Bigger Is Better - Song - Disney Junior UK HD
- they made me a new cake that went from ceiling to floor
they made me a new cake that went from ceiling to floor
- they made me a new cake that went from ceiling to floor
they made me a new cake that went from ceiling to floor
IKEA Small Spaces - Squeezing a small laundry room into a small bathroom
- We also put up this drying rack, which you can raise to the ceiling.
We also put up this drying rack, which you can raise to the ceiling.
I Said Bitch - Key & Peele
- That washing wachine is huge. - Up on the ceiling here.
That washing wachine is huge. - Up on the ceiling here.
How to Survive a Building Explosion
- As the ceiling rained down on Samah and her infant child, she felt at any moment her home would collapse beneath her.
As the ceiling rained down on Samah and her infant child, she felt at any moment her home would collapse beneath her.
Reviewing a Bionic Hand!
- And then they also have these even crazier demos, like connecting it to a brain implant, which I obviously can't test myself, but it seems to imply that the ceiling is way higher than what we've already seen.
And then they also have these even crazier demos, like connecting it to a brain implant, which I obviously can't test myself, but it seems to imply that the ceiling is way higher than what we've already seen.
- but seems to imply that the ceiling is way higher than what we've already seen.
but seems to imply that the ceiling is way higher than what we've already seen.
Jimmy O. Yang Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
- And there's, like, a ceiling.
And there's, like, a ceiling.
- And there's like a ceiling, there's a glass window.
And there's like a ceiling, there's a glass window.
What's In The Big Beautiful Bill And Why Elon Musk Hates It
- And so what this bill would do is it would raise the debt ceiling.
And so what this bill would do is it would raise the debt ceiling.
- And so what this bill would do is it would raise the debt ceiling.
And so what this bill would do is it would raise the debt ceiling.