roster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.
Inflected forms:
form: rosters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rosters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rostering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rostered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rostered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
pos: noun
examples: I'm number 12 on the roster for tonight's game.
Its 50 H-7 2-8-8-2's (30 of which found their way onto the Union Pacific roster in 1945) were simple mainly because a tunnel in the Alleghenies would not accommodate the low-pressure cylinders of any Mallet larger than a 2-6-6-2.
As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.
[So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships.
The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten. Rosters are typically agreed a week in advance.
gloss: A list of the jobs to be performed by members of an organization and often with the date and time that they are expected to perform them.
pos: noun
examples: The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.
gloss: A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
pos: noun
examples: Before uni starts check your work roster with your uni schedule to make sure there are no clashes with your classes.
gloss: A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
pos: noun
gloss: To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.
New York Central rostered literally hundreds of engine subclassifications in contrast to the Spartan simplicity of Pennsy's ranks.
C. J. Boocock, "The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works", pages 160-161:
After speedy repairs, No. 35018 worked the train successfully for several days and was then rostered to the 7.20 a.m. Eastleigh-Waterloo.
"Motive Power Miscellany", page 184:
The Guildford-Havant and Alton lines were also employed for Waterloo-Bournemouth and Weymouth traffic; some expresses diverted via the former route had to be re-rostered for light Pacifics, as the "Merchant Navy" class is barred from the Netley line.
gloss: To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rota
Derived words: deroster
nonroster
duty roster
rosterable
roster on
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: списък
roman: spisǎk
lang: Catalan
word: llistat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 花名册
roman: huāmíngcè
lang: Dutch
word: rooster
lang: Estonian
word: nimekiri
lang: Finnish
word: nimilista
lang: Finnish
word: osanottajaluettelo
lang: Finnish
word: pelaajaluettelo
lang: Finnish
word: rosteri
lang: French
word: liste
lang: German
word: Liste
lang: German
word: Teilnehmerliste
lang: German
word: Matrikel
lang: German
word: Namensliste
lang: German
word: Dienstliste
lang: German
word: Dienstplan
lang: German
word: Diensteinteilung [adm.]
lang: Hungarian
word: névsor
lang: Irish
word: uainchlár
lang: Italian
word: ruolino
lang: Italian
word: ruolino di servizio
lang: Italian
word: ruolino di marcia
lang: Italian
word: calendario di lavoro
lang: Japanese
word: 名簿
roman: meibo
lang: Japanese
word: ロスター
roman: rosutā
lang: Portuguese
word: rol
lang: Portuguese
word: lista
lang: Russian
word: спи́сок
roman: spísok
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: popis
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: spisak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lista
lang: Spanish
word: lista de personal
lang: Spanish
word: plantel
lang: Spanish
word: nómina
lang: Swedish
word: lista
lang: Swedish
word: schema