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ceil en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

/siːl/
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).

Meanings

(transitive) 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. 1903 June 1, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 2nd edition, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 139:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
ceiling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
ceils	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
ceiled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
ceiled	Tense=Past		lexicographic
ciel		alternative	lexicographic

Deriveds

ceiler · ceiling

ceil en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

/siːl/
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel

Meanings

(poetic) A ceiling.
- […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […] 1890, Ambrose E. Pratt, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Sandwich and Bourne, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 3, 1889, page 89:
(abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of ceiling.
alt of ceiling

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
ceils	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

ceil en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

/siːl/
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel

Meanings

To set a higher bound.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
ceils	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
ceiling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
ceiled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
ceiled	Tense=Past		lexicographic

Translations (2)

cs zastropovat (to set a higher bound) · cs omezit shora (to set a higher bound)