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Facade vs. Roof — What's the Difference?

Facade vs. Roof — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Facade and Roof

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Facade

The face of a building, especially the principal face.

Roof

A roof is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind. A roof is part of the building envelope.

Facade

An artificial or deceptive front
Ideological slogans that were a façade for power struggles.

Roof

The structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle
A car with a vinyl roof
A thatched roof
The rain woke him, hammering on the roof
Roof timbers

Facade

(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
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Roof

The upper limit or level of prices or wages
Starting salary £12,185, rising to a roof of £16,835

Facade

(by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.

Roof

Cover with a roof
The yard had been roughly roofed over with corrugated iron

Facade

(figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.

Roof

The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.

Facade

(programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.

Roof

The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself
Three generations living under one roof.

Facade

The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its façade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

Roof

The top covering of something
The roof of a car.

Facade

The face or front of a building

Roof

The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure
The roof of the mouth.

Facade

A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

Roof

The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling
A roof on prices is needed to keep our customers happy.

Roof

To furnish with a roof or cover.

Roof

(architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
The roof was blown off by the tornado.

Roof

The top external level of a building.
Let's go up to the roof.

Roof

The upper part of a cavity.
The palate is the roof of the mouth.

Roof

(mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

Roof

(climbing) An overhanging rock wall.

Roof

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.

Roof

To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

Roof

To put into prison, to bird.

Roof

(transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.

Roof

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

Roof

That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
The flowery roofShowered roses, which the morn repaired.

Roof

The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

Roof

To cover with a roof.
I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings that have not been roofed with vaults or arches.

Roof

To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
Here had we now our country's honor roofed.

Roof

A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building

Roof

Protective covering on top of a motor vehicle

Roof

Provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

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