Roller Meaning
/ˈɹəʊlə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAnything that rolls.
nounAnything that rolls., Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
Sentence Examples
James Bond was always depicted as a high roller in his movies.
I got the roller skates for nothing.
Which do you enjoy more, ice skating or roller skating?
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cylindrical paint ____ helped him cover the large wall quickly with ease.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The road crew used a heavy ____ to flatten the freshly laid asphalt on the new road surface.
Word Origin & History
* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er. * (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper."
— 1857, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 118:
"The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared."
— 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
"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,[…]."
— 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
"A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic."
— 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
"In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs."
— 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 333:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cylindrical paint ____ helped him cover the large wall quickly with ease.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The road crew used a heavy ____ to flatten the freshly laid asphalt on the new road surface.