Definition of ceiling_fan
1. ceiling [ n ] the overhead upper surface of a room
Examples:
"he hated painting the ceiling"
(Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)
A shot caught him and straightened him up in screaming pain ; a following volley of shots shattered glass , ripped the ceiling , and sent him lurching heavily from the table .
(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)
Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving .
(Morley Callaghan, A Passion in Rome....)
Then he thought_of those Old_Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine_Chapel .
Synonyms ceiling Related Terms upper_surface overhead room hallway2. ceiling [ n ] (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds
Used in print:(Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)
He possessed the fighter pilot 's horror of bad_weather and instrument_flying , and he wondered , if the ceiling did drop , whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in_this unfamiliar territory .
The ceiling stayed solid above them at about eight hundred feet , and at_times the sheer cliffs seemed about to close_in .
Greg went_up tight against the ceiling and led them back to their pass to home .
Synonyms ceiling Related Terms altitude meteorology3. ceiling [ n ] an upper limit on what is allowed
Examples: : "they established a cap for prices"
(Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)
The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment , set at the 1954 level , which is called the `` base '' allotment , and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment , for each State .
It stipulates , in_addition , that all amounts remaining as_a_result_of imposing the `` ceiling '' , and not used for insuring the `` floor '' , be redistributed to those States still below their maximums .
Synonyms ceiling cap Related Terms control glass_ceiling cap4. ceiling [ n ] maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)
Synonyms ceiling Related Terms altitude combat_ceiling absolute_ceilingSimilar Spelling
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