different between roller vs beam

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

roller (plural rollers)

1. (heading) Anything that rolls.
   1. Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
   2. A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
   3. (cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
   4. A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
   5. An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
   6. One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
   7. A roller towel.
   8. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
   9. (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
   10. Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
   11. A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
   12. The cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
   13. (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.

2. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
3. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.

   • 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, […].

4. (heading) A bird.
   1. A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
   2. Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
5. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
6. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
7. (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 69:

     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.

8. (slang) A wheelchair user.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

roller (third-person singular simple present rollers, present participle rollering, simple past and past participle rollered)

1. (intransitive) To roller skate.
   • 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz (page 138)

     One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.

Anagrams

• Orrell, reroll

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English roller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.lœ?/

Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

1. (countable) in-line skate, rollerblade

   Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l'âge de 8 ans.

2. (uncountable) skating (with inline skates).

   J'adore faire du roller au moment du coucher du soleil.

See also

• patin à roulettes

Further reading

• “roller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Roller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rol??r]
• Rhymes: -?r
• Hyphenation: rol?ler

Noun

roller (plural rollerek)

1. kick scooter, push scooter, scooter (a small platform with two wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground)

Declension

or

Derived terms

• rolleres
• rollerezik

References

Further reading

• roller in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

roller m or f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

roller f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

Old French

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

roller

1. to polish a helmet

Etymology 2

see roeler

Verb

roller

1. Alternative form of roeler (to roll)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-oll, *-olls, *-ollt are modified to ol, ous, out. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roler, to polish a helmet)
• rouler on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (to polish a helmet; to roll)

Portuguese

Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

1. roller skate (a boot with small wheels)

   Synonym: patim

Swedish

Noun

roller c

1. a cylindrical, rolling tool for applying paint
2. indefinite plural of roll

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English beem, from Old English b?am (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.

The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English b?amian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?m, IPA^(key): /bi?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

beam (plural beams)

1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

   • And a letter vnto Asaph the keeper of the kings forrest, that he may giue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the Citie, and for the house that I shall enter into: And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God vpon me.

2. One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of timber or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
   • 1905, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

     Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?—a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams—just like any other farm kitchen.

3. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)

   Synonym: breadth

   • 1892, Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century Chapter 7

     Being only 280 ft. long, with a beam of 66 ft, their speed is moderate, and for a long time difficulty was experienced in steering them.

4. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
5. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
6. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
8. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
9. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
10. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
11. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.

    Synonyms: working beam, walking beam

12. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.

    a beam of light

    a beam of energy
13. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.

    a beam of hope, or of comfort
14. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.

    Synonym: beam feather

15. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
16. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.

Hyponyms

• (textiles): fore beam, back beam

See also

• Thesaurus:stick

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.

   to beam forth light

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
3. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams
4. (transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
5. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.

   Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.

   The injured crewmembers were immediately beamed to sickbay.

6. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
7. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam
8. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

Translations

Anagrams

• BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe

German

Verb

beam

1. singular imperative of beamen

Old English

Alternative forms

• beom

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???m/

Noun

b?am m (nominative plural b?amas)

1. tree

   Synonyms: tr?ow, wudu

2. beam of wood

   Synonym: bord

   1. gallows, gibbet (hanging device with a crossbeam)

      Synonym: ?ealga

   2. (by extension) the Cross
      • Codex Vercillensis

Declension

Derived terms

• si?eb?am

Descendants

• Middle English: beem
  • Scots: beme
  • English: beam
    • ? German: beamen
    • ? Japanese: ???

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?am]

Verb

beam

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of bea
2. first-person plural imperfect indicative of bea

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???m/

Noun

beam c (plural beammen, diminutive beamke)

1. tree

Derived terms

• hefbeam

Further reading

• “beam”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011