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roller
1[ roh-ler ]
noun
- a person or thing that rolls.
- a cylinder, wheel, caster, or the like, upon which something is rolled along.
- a cylindrical body, revolving on a fixed axis, especially one to facilitate the movement of something passed over or around it.
- a cylindrical object upon which something is rolled up:
the roller of a window shade.
- a hollow, cylindrical object of plastic, stiff net, or the like, upon which hair is rolled up for setting.
- a cylindrical body for rolling over something to be spread out, leveled, crushed, smoothed, compacted, impressed, inked, etc.
- any of various other revolving cylindrical bodies, as the barrel of a music box.
- Metalworking. a person in charge of a rolling mill.
- a long, swelling wave advancing steadily.
- a rolled bandage.
roller
2[ roh-ler ]
noun
- any of several Old World birds of the family Coraciidae that tumble or roll over in flight, especially in the breeding season.
- one of a variety of canaries having a warbling or trilling song.
roller
/ ˈrəʊlə /
noun
- a cylinder having an absorbent surface and a handle, used for spreading paint
- Also calledgarden roller a heavy cast-iron cylinder or pair of cylinders on an axle to which a handle is attached; used for flattening lawns
- See breakera long heavy wave of the sea, advancing towards the shore Compare breaker 1
- a hardened cylinder of precision-ground steel that forms one of the rolling components of a roller bearing or of a linked driving chain
- a cylinder fitted on pivots, used to enable heavy objects to be easily moved; castor
- printing a cylinder, usually of hard rubber, used to ink a forme or plate before impression
- a cylindrical tube or barrel onto which material is rolled for transport or storage
- any of various other cylindrical devices that rotate about a cylinder, used for any of various purposes
- a small cylinder, esp one that is heated, onto which a woman's hair may be rolled to make it curl
- med a bandage consisting of a long strip of muslin or cheesecloth rolled tightly into a cylindrical form before application
- a band fastened around a horse's belly to keep a blanket in position
- any of various Old World birds of the family Coraciidae , such as Coracias garrulus ( European roller ), that have a blue, green, and brown plumage, a slightly hooked bill, and an erratic flight: order Coraciiformes (kingfishers, etc)
- often capital a variety of tumbler pigeon that performs characteristic backward somersaults in flight
- a breed of canary that has a soft trilling song in which the notes are run together
- a person or thing that rolls
- a man who rolls and trims fleeces after shearing
- See steamroller, roadrollershort for roadroller steamroller
- See roller captionshort for roller caption
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Example Sentences
They're made to make a lot of money and to get teenagers in a kind of experience, a roller coaster ride.
People would just be shouting, like you go to church, a holy roller church or something like that.
My seven-year-old son still can't go on all the roller coasters he wants, because he is a few inches too short.
His cadence is a steady beat rather than a roller coaster, and his words sparing and simple.
His Wednesday is going to be a roller-coaster ride from Rush Limbaugh to Fox to Laura Ingraham to who knows what.
An amount of slack in the chain caused the balls to knock on passing this roller before entering the pump bottom.
But before this extreme is reached, the momentum of the revolving balance carries the roller pin entirely out of the fork.
I hitched the horse to my improvised drag and smoothed it again, several times, in default of a roller.
They were of elm, with lignum vit roller sheaves, and were bound inside with iron, and had swivel eyes.
Roller shades on the door and window and an electric door bell completed a very neat and practical playhouse.
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