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green roof
(redirected from Grass roof)

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green roof [′grēn ¦rüf]
(mining engineering)
A mine roof which has not broken down or which shows no sign of taking weight.


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Delighted, also, to see on its grass roof an Archigram icon: yes David, the 'Mowbot' is alive and well and mopping-up the grass above our heads.
Both less complex and more eloquent than Dao Strom's similarly themed Grass Roof, Tin Roof (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), the images here are filtered through the understanding of a central character who is young enough, upon her arrival in America, to report the living conditions--sharing a room with her father and the four men who escaped and were resettled with them--without judgment on either their suitability or social inferences.
At the South Park production studio in Marina del Rey, home of the popular animated series by Comedy Central, there is a recording studio with an adobe roof and an animation area with a thatched grass roof.
 
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