roller
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
cycling
entertainment
film
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
media
music
sports
television
Etymology: * From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.
Base: roll
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rollers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rollering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rollered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rollered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
examples: The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
examples: The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that rolls.
pos: noun
examples: He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle.
gloss: A long wide bandage used in surgery.
pos: noun
gloss: A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
pos: noun
examples: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
gloss: A bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A bird.
pos: noun
examples: In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.
gloss: A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
pos: noun
gloss: A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
pos: noun
gloss: A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
pos: noun
examples: I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.
gloss: A wheelchair user.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To roller skate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.
Derived words: ab roller
ab roller wheel
beard roller
Cambridge roller
cheese roller
coal roller
cuckoo-roller
dandy-roller
dandy roller
dermaroller
European roller
fancy roller
foam roller
foot roller
ground roller
hair roller
heavy roller
high-roller
high roller
Indian roller
leaf roller
leaf-roller
light roller
lilac-breasted roller
lilac-throated roller
lint roller
lush-roller
lush roller
mine roller
Mosilikatze's roller
Oriental roller
paint roller
pea roller
pinch roller
road roller
rollerball
roller bearing
roller bed
roller blade
rollerblade
roller blind
rollerboard
roller bolt
roller boot
roller bottle
roller chain
roller-coaster
roller-coasterish
roller coaster
rollercoaster
roller-cone bit
roller cone bit
roller derby
roller disco
roller-disco
roller docker
rollerdrum
roller football
roller gin
rollergirl
roller hockey
rollerless
roller machine
rollermaker
rollermaking
rollerman
Rollermania
roller mill
rolleron
roller organ
roller rink
roller shade
roller shoe
roller shutter
roller skate
roller-skate
roller skating
roller sledge hockey
roller sled hockey
roller sport
roller table
sap roller
snow roller
steam roller
steamroller
stoneroller
threshing roller
threshing-roller
throller
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ролка
roman: rolka
lang: Dutch
word: roller
lang: Finnish
word: rulla
lang: Finnish
word: pyörittäjä
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κύλινδρος
roman: kúlindros
lang: Japanese
word: ローラー
roman: rōrā
lang: Korean
word: 롤러
roman: rolleo
lang: Macedonian
word: ро́лна
roman: rólna
lang: Norman
word: rouôleux
lang: Polish
word: wałek
lang: Russian
word: ро́лик
roman: rólik
lang: Russian
word: колёсико
roman: koljósiko
lang: Russian
word: вал
roman: val
lang: Spanish
word: rodillo
lang: Tagalog
word: paralis
lang: Tagalog
word: rodilyo
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مردانه
roman: merdane
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لوغ
roman: loğ