A type of roof having one or more pitches, but not necessarily rising to form a ridge or peak.

(archaic) plural of roof tree

(archaic) The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house.

plural of roof light

plural of roof-plate

Any roof with at least two pitches rising to form a peak, said peak in the form either of a ridge or a point. Types of pitched roof include: the open gable roof, box gable roof, Dutch gable roof, hip roof, jerkinhead roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, saltbox roof, pyramid hip roof or any other polygonal hip roof; but do not include the shed roof, or the butterfly roof.

A roof having a valley instead of a flat at the top, giving it a vertical section somewhat like the capital letter M.

A window (or set of windows) set into a roof of a buildig in order to admit light / A light set into the roof of a motor vehicle

(construction) A wall plate that receives the lower ends of the rafters of a roof.

(architecture) Synonym of hip roof