ceil
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /siːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːl
- Homophones: SEAL, seal
Etymology 1
editUncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).
Alternative forms
editVerb
editceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)
- (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
- 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:
- It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editAbbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel
Noun
editceil (plural ceils)
- (poetic) A ceiling.
- 1890, Ambrose E. Pratt, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Sandwich and Bourne, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 3, 1889, page 89:
- […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]
- (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editceiling — see ceiling
Verb
editceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)
- (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
Anagrams
editIrish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish ceilid, from Proto-Celtic *keleti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-; compare Welsh celu, Latin cēlō, Old English helan.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editceil (present analytic ceileann, future analytic ceilfidh, verbal noun ceilt, past participle ceilte)
Conjugation
editconjugation of ceil (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
ceil | cheil | gceil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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