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Meanings of roller in English
Catalan
rul·lo A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it.
Spanish
volteadora Synonyms
Examples for "roll"
Examples for "roll"
1
A free inflight Wi-Fi service is set to roll out this year.
2
He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.
3
He thought the state was going to roll over on this case.
4
However, the ministry said those roll numbers were what it would expect.
5
Ms Bennett said the shared equity scheme should roll out next year.
1
Then the rolling wave of false calm as the conditioning kicked in.
2
There is a great, rolling wave of sound through it all.
3
But now in a long rolling wave of steel the German battalion roared swiftly onward.
4
Luce nodded, already battling a rolling wave of confusion.
5
High is the grove of their masts, as they nod by turns on the rolling wave.
Usage of roller in English
1
The roller work was almost done; next came the nit-picky brush work.
2
The inclination of the arm to the roller is shown in Fig.
3
The final step is to clean the roller thoroughly with warm water.
4
The measuring roller in these machines is usually one yard in circumference.
5
We kind of rode the roller coaster week in and week out.
6
I ran the roller over the lumps; then harrowed, rolled, and harrowed.
7
It's fair to say it's been something of a roller-coaster ride since.
8
I laid off, and Miles Diston took the high-roller out next trip.
9
It's a roller-skate based sport which involves two teams of 15 players.
10
Its popularity eclipsed even that of the soap-slide and the roller skates.
11
He afterwards added the inking roller and table to the common press.
12
Moving his hands along the rail, he came to a metal roller.
13
Farewells were private, screened from the media scrum by closed roller doors.
14
There were two blank sheets in the roller, with a carbon between.
15
The seamen passed much of their time roller-skating on the landing deck.
16
Thorp had also heard that Meriwether was something of a high roller.
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Roller across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
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