different between roller vs rocker

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 rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

rocker (plural rockers)

1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
2. A rocking chair.
3. (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)

   All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [1]

4. The breve below as in ?.
5. Someone passionate about rock music.
6. A musician who plays rock music.
7. (informal) A rock music song.
   • September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s [2]

     "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]

8. One who rocks something.
   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times

     It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.

9. (Britain) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
10. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
11. A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
12. A rocking horse.
13. A rocker board.
14. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
15. A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
16. (engineering) A rock shaft.
17. (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
    • 2000, Mark Collantes, The Academy (page 66)

      Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Corker, Croker, corker, croker, re-rock, recork, rerock

Danish

Noun

rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)

1. An outlaw biker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rocker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: roc?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

rocker m (plural rockers, diminutive rockertje n)

1. A rocker (rock musician or rock fan).
2. A rocker (rock song).

Related terms

• rockster

French

Etymology

rock +? -er

Verb

rocker

1. to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

Conjugation

Related terms

• rock
• rockeur m / rockeuse f

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From English rocker.

Noun

rocker m (plural rockeres)

1. (rare) rocker (rock musician)