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roller
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)
- (heading) Anything that rolls.
- Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
- A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
- (cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
- A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
- An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
- One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
- A roller towel.
- A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
- (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
- Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
- A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
- The cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
- (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.
- A long wide bandage used in surgery.
- 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, […].
- (heading) A bird.
- A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
- Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
- A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
- A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
- (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.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 69:
- (slang) A wheelchair user.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
roller (third-person singular simple present rollers, present participle rollering, simple past and past participle rollered)
- (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.
- 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz (page 138)
Anagrams
- Orrell, reroll
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English roller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o.lœ?/
Noun
roller m (plural rollers)
- (countable) in-line skate, rollerblade
- Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l'âge de 8 ans.
- (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)
- 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
- indefinite plural of rolle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
roller f
- 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
- to polish a helmet
Etymology 2
see roeler
Verb
roller
- 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 IXe au XVe 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)
- roller skate (a boot with small wheels)
- Synonym: patim
Swedish
Noun
roller c
- a cylindrical, rolling tool for applying paint
- indefinite plural of roll
Declension
roller From the web:
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rotor
English
Etymology
From an irregular shortening of rotator.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /??o?.t?/
- Homophone: rota (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
rotor (plural rotors)
- A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
- The wing of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft.
- (meteorology) A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
- A quantity having magnitude, direction, and position.
Derived terms
- mountain rotor
- rotor cloud
Related terms
- stator
Translations
Czech
Etymology
From English rotor, ultimately from Latin rota.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rotor]
- Rhymes: -otor
Noun
rotor m
- rotor (rotating part of a mechanical device)
Related terms
Further reading
- rotor in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- rotor in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
rotor m (plural rotoren or rotors, diminutive rotortje n)
- rotor
Latin
Verb
rotor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of rot?
References
- rotor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Polish
Noun
rotor m inan
- rotor (the rotating part of a mechanical device)
Declension
Synonyms
- wirnik
Portuguese
Noun
rotor m (plural rotores)
- rotor (a rotating part of a mechanical device)
- rotor (central part of a helicopter’s wings)
Romanian
Etymology
From French rotor.
Noun
rotor n (plural rotoare)
- rotor
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rô?tor/
- Hyphenation: ro?tor
Noun
r?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- rotor
Declension
Spanish
Noun
rotor m (plural rotores)
- rotor
Turkish
Noun
rotor (definite accusative rotoru, plural rotorlar)
- (aviation) rotor
Declension
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