Ceiling in a sentence as a noun

The black bar at the top is like working in a room with a low ceiling painted black all day.

But the joke was a great reminder that your floor is someone else's ceiling.

High scores become primarily a function of the RNG at the skill ceiling.

Why is it OK to demand a ceiling to a developer's compensation?

In fact I think the short position may be as high as one can actually go. They literally hit the ceiling on the short position.

You can turn down a job for any reason and it has nothing to do with the "glass ceiling".Aren't we allowed to have opinions these days?

Recognizing this doesn't mean becoming blind to the glass ceiling that women often hit at the high-end of the career ladder.

The investor insisted on locking in that ceiling on valuation as a means of self-protection.

A simpler one is to put a horizontal bar, the same height as the tunnel's ceiling, which will physically stop the truck before causing millions worth of damages.

If you were painting a mural on the ceiling of a large structure that you want to be admired for generations to come- do you hire 5 brilliant painters or 1000 average painters?

"Jeff Atwood's metrics will help you filter out engineers whose complexity ceiling is <1k lines -- StackOverflow answers, whoopee -- but that's not a terribly hard thing to interview for.

So he doesn't bump into said ceiling when running such tests back to back?Did the author run the tests back to back, or have a cool down period between tests?Where was the author's network upstream located when he tried said tests?

Revolutionary agitation usually comes when hard-working, intelligent, and previously fortunate people become out of power and hit a ceiling, either because society is deeply stagnant or because they're actively being deprived of autonomy.

About the only hiring signal I've identified for this is interest in functional programming -- languages like Clojure and Scala exist precisely to raise the ceiling of complexity a human can handle[6] -- and as such I'm trying to learn this stuff and trying to find people via the community who care to hire engineers with these skills.

Ceiling definitions

noun

the overhead upper surface of a covered space; "he hated painting the ceiling"

noun

(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds

noun

an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices"

See also: roof

noun

maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)