Roller

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
2. isim A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
3. isim A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
4. isim A large rolling device used to flatten a grass surface; commonly in relation to a cricket pitch.
5. isim A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.

   “The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.”

6. isim An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
7. isim One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
8. isim A roller towel.
9. isim A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

   “The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.”

10. isim A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
11. isim One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
12. isim Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
13. isim A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
14. isim A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
15. isim A rolling pin
16. isim 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.

    “He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle.”

17. isim A long wide bandage used in surgery.
18. isim 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,[…].”

19. isim A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
20. isim Any of various nonpasserine birds constituting the family Coraciidae, having stocky bodies, large heads, and stout bills hooked at the tip.
21. fiil To roller skate.

    “One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.”

22. isim A Rolls-Royce car

    “Only I thought private eyes were supposed to be discreet; you could hardly call yourself that when you drive a Roller.”