ROLLER
\ɹˈə͡ʊlə], \ɹˈəʊlə], \ɹ_ˈəʊ_l_ə]\
Definitions of ROLLER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"
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a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
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a grounder that rolls along the infield
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pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
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Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
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a cylinder that revolves
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a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
By Princeton University
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a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"
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a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
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a grounder that rolls along the infield
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pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
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Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
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a cylinder that revolves
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a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
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A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
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One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
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A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
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A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
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A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
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ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
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Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
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A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; - called also roller towel.
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Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
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A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
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One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
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A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
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A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
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A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
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ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
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Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
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A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; - called also roller towel.
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Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight.
By Noah Webster.
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That which turns round and round, or over and over; a cylinder used for grinding, smoothing, flattening, etc.; a small wheel; a long, heavy wave.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A strip of muslin or cheese-cloth, usually from two to four or five inches wide and several yards long, rolled upon itself to form a compact cylinder; a roller-bandage.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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That which rolls: a cylinder used for rolling, grinding, etc.: a long broad bandage:-pl. heavy waves.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Heavy waves that set in after a storm; a bird of the crow or the bee-eater family, so called from its habit of tumbling in the air.
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That which rolls or turns on its own axis; a cylinder of wood, stone, or metal for rolling, &c.; a long broad bandage.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A long round body of wood, stone, or iron, used to press, crush, grind, or smooth; in surg., a long broad bandage of cotton or linen.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. That which rolls: that, which turns on its own axis: especially, a cylinder of wood, stone, metal, &c., used in husbandry and the arts;— a long and broad bandage used in surgery: — a cylinder coated with a composition of glue and molasses, which takes up ink from the inking table and distributes it over the types in printing.
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