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ceil¹
- /siːl/
Sounds like SEAL, seal · Rhymes with -iːl
Where it comes from
Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).
verb ceils · ceiling · ceiled · ciel
- To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
ceil²
- /siːl/
Sounds like SEAL, seal · Rhymes with -iːl
Where it comes from
Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel
noun ceils
- A ceiling. […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]
- Abbreviation of ceiling.ceiling
verb ceils · ceiling · ceiled
- To set a higher bound.
