{
    "term": "ceiling",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the top inside surface of a room",
            "sensetop": "on a ceilingceiling of something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a large room with a **high ceiling**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **walls and ceiling** were painted white."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A large chandelier **hangs from the ceiling**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fly on the ceiling",
                    "contextForm": "on a ceiling"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ceiling of her room was low.",
                    "contextForm": "ceiling of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bathroom has mirrors from ceiling to floor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The palace is famous for its 17th-century painted ceilings."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "low", "tall"],
                "verb + ceiling": ["paint", "plaster", "reach"],
                "ceiling + verb": ["collapse"],
                "ceiling + noun": ["fan", "light", "tile"],
                "preposition": ["on the ceiling"],
                "phrases": ["from ceiling to floor", "from floor to ceiling"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the highest limit or amount of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The government has decided to lift price ceilings on bread and milk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reality is the economy is **hitting the ceiling** and the growth rate must slow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've put a $50 ceiling on their admission charge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ceiling on imports"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have put a ceiling on the price of petrol."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["debt", "expenditure", "price"],
                "verb + ceiling": ["impose", "place", "put"],
                "preposition": ["ceiling on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the greatest height at which a particular aircraft is able to fly",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an aircraft with a ceiling of 20 000 feet"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ce/ceiling/ceiling__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ce/ceiling/ceiling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting the action of lining the interior of a room with plaster or panelling): from ceil (perhaps related to Latin celare, French céler ‘conceal’) + -ing. Sense (1) dates from the mid 16th cent."
}