English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
road roller (plural road rollers)
- A heavy engineering vehicle used to compact asphalt in the construction of roads.
- Synonym: (informal) steamroller
Usage notes[edit]
- Originally powered by steam, and thus often called a steamroller
Translations[edit]
heavy engineering vehicle used to compact asphalt
- Arabic: مِحْدَلَة f (miḥdala), مِدْحَلَة f (midḥala)
- Armenian: գլդոն (hy) (gldon)
- Belarusian: като́к m (katók), даро́жны като́к m (daróžny katók)
- Catalan: piconadora f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 壓路機／压路机 (zh) (yālùjī)
- Czech: vibrační válec m, válec (cs) m
- Dutch: stoomwals (nl) f, pletwals (nl) f
- Esperanto: ŝoserulo
- Estonian: teerull
- Finnish: tiejyrä (fi)
- French: rouleau compresseur (fr) m
- German: Walze (de) f, Straßenwalze f
- Greek: οδοστρωτήρας (el) m (odostrotíras)
- Hungarian: úthenger (hu)
- Icelandic: valtari (is) m
- Italian: rullo compressore m
- Japanese: ロードローラー (rōdorōrā), 締固め用機械 (しめがためようきかい, shimegatameyō kikai) (formal)
- Kazakh: каток (katok)
- Korean: 로드 롤러 (rodeu rolleo)
- Macedonian: ва́лјак m (váljak)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: замын индүү (машин) (zamyn indüü (mašin))
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vals (no) m, valse (no) m, veivals m
- Nynorsk: vals m, valse m
- Polish: walec (pl) m, walec drogowy m
- Portuguese: rolo compressor m
- Russian: като́к (ru) m (katók), доро́жный като́к m (doróžnyj katók)
- Slovak: vibračný valec m, valec m
- Spanish: aplanadora (es) f (Latin America), apisonadora f (Spain), compactadora (es) f, compactador m
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: като́к m (katók), доро́жній като́к m (doróžnij katók)
- Vietnamese: máy lu, xe lu
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Further reading[edit]
road roller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 