roller

See also Roller

English

Wikipedia

A lilac-crested roller (bird of the family Coraciidae), Coracias caudata.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(r)

Etymology

to roll + -er

Noun

Wikipedia roller (plural rollers)

1. anything that rolls
2. any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure
3. (cricket) a heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch
4. a large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast
5. a cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink
6. an agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth
7. a bread or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (cf. Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler)
8. any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks
9. (also written Roller) a car made by Rolls-Royce
10. the police (old blues slang)
11. a padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting
12. (TV, 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.

13. One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair

Derived terms

• light roller
• heavy roller
• hair roller
• high roller
• paint roller
• road roller
• steam roller
• roller bearing
• roller blade
• roller skate

Translations

anything that rolls

• Finnish: rulla (fi)
• Jèrriais: rouôleux m

• Russian: ролик (ru) (rólik) m, колёсико (ru) (koljósiko) n, вал (ru) (val) m
• Spanish: rodillo (es) m

rotating cylindrical part of a machine

• Finnish: tela (fi)

• Russian: вал (ru) (val) m

cricket: heavy rolling device

• Finnish: jyrä (fi)

large, wide, curling wave

• Finnish: maininki (fi)

• Russian: бурун (ru) (burún) m, вал (ru) (val) m

tool for applying paint or ink

• Finnish: tela (fi)
• French: rouleau (fr) m
• Icelandic: rúlla (is) f

• Russian: валик (ru) (válik) m
• Spanish: rodillo (es) m
• Swedish: roller (sv) c

agricultural machine

• Finnish: jyrä (fi)

roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed

• German: Roller (de) m, Rollertaube (de) f, Orientalischer Roller (de) m, Orientalische Rollertaube (de) f (cf. Tümmler (de) m, Tümmlertaube (de) m, Werfer (de) m, Ostpreußischer Werfer (de) m)

• Russian: турман (ru) (turmán) m

bird of the family Coraciidae

• Chechen: чIоб
• Finnish: sininärhi (fi)
• French: rollier (fr)
• German: Racke (de) f
• Hungarian: szalakóta (hu); csörgőmadár (hu)

• Navajo: gáagii naashchʼąąʼígíí
• Serbian: zlatovrana f
• Spanish: carraca f
• Volapük: (♂♀) korak (vo), (♂) hikorak (vo), (♀) jikorak (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) korakül (vo), (♂ offspring) hikorakül (vo), (♀ offspring) jikorakül (vo)

nickname for Rolls-Royce car

• Finnish: Rolls (fi)

slang: police — see cop

padded surcingle used on horses

• Finnish: vikellysvyö (fi)

TV,film: credits

• Finnish: lopputekstit (fi) pl

hair roller — see hair roller

Anagrams

• reroll

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French

Etymology

From English roller.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁolœʁ/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

1. (countable) inline skates

   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

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Swedish

Noun

roller c

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

Declension

Declension of roller 1

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	roller	rollern	rollers	rollers
genitive	rollers	rollerns	rollers	rollers