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{
"term": "ceiling",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the top inside surface of a room",
"sensetop": "on a ceilingceiling of something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a large room with a **high ceiling**"
},
{
"text": "The **walls and ceiling** were painted white."
},
{
"text": "A large chandelier **hangs from the ceiling**."
},
{
"text": "a fly on the ceiling",
"contextForm": "on a ceiling"
},
{
"text": "The ceiling of her room was low.",
"contextForm": "ceiling of something"
},
{
"text": "She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling."
},
{
"text": "The bathroom has mirrors from ceiling to floor."
},
{
"text": "The palace is famous for its 17th-century painted ceilings."
}
],
"topics": ["Houses and homes"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "low", "tall"],
"verb + ceiling": ["paint", "plaster", "reach"],
"ceiling + verb": ["collapse"],
"ceiling + noun": ["fan", "light", "tile"],
"preposition": ["on the ceiling"],
"phrases": ["from ceiling to floor", "from floor to ceiling"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the highest limit or amount of something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The government has decided to lift price ceilings on bread and milk."
},
{
"text": "The reality is the economy is **hitting the ceiling** and the growth rate must slow."
},
{
"text": "They've put a $50 ceiling on their admission charge."
},
{
"text": "a ceiling on imports"
},
{
"text": "They have put a ceiling on the price of petrol."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["debt", "expenditure", "price"],
"verb + ceiling": ["impose", "place", "put"],
"preposition": ["ceiling on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the greatest height at which a particular aircraft is able to fly",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an aircraft with a ceiling of 20 000 feet"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsiːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "ce/ceiling/ceiling__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsiːlɪŋ/",
"audio": "ce/ceiling/ceiling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting the action of lining the interior of a room with plaster or panelling): from ceil (perhaps related to Latin celare, French céler ‘conceal’) + -ing. Sense (1) dates from the mid 16th cent."
}