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English

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Etymology

  • 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.

Pronunciation

Noun

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roller (plural rollers)

  1. (heading) Anything that rolls.
    1. Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
    2. A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
    3. A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
    4. A large rolling device used to flatten a grass surface; commonly in relation to a cricket pitch.
    5. A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
      Synonyms: paint roller, rolling paint brush, rolling brush
      • 1857, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 118:
        The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.
    6. An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
    7. One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
    8. A roller towel.
    9. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
      • 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
        The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
    10. A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
    11. (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
    12. Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
    13. A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
    14. A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
    15. A rolling pin
    16. (disc golf) 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.
  2. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
  3. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      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, […].
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
      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.
  4. (heading) A bird.
    1. A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
    2. Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
  5. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
  6. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
  7. (television, 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, published 2007, page 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.
  8. (slang) A wheelchair user.
  9. (slang, informal) A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
  10. (slang, music) A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Welsh: rholer

Translations

Verb

roller (third-person singular simple present rollers, present participle rollering, simple past and past participle rollered)

  1. (intransitive) To roller skate.
    • 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz, page 138:
      One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.

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Chinese

Etymology

Clipping of English roller skating.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹou̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

Noun

roller

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, sports) roller skating

Derived terms

  • roller場 / roller场
  • roller鞋
  • 玩roller
  • 踩roller

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from roller.

Pronunciation

Noun

roller m (plural rollers)

  1. (countable) in-line skate, rollerblade
    Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l'âge de 8 ans.
    He got his first pair of rollerblades at the age of eight.
  2. (uncountable) rollerblading
    J'adore faire du roller au moment du coucher du soleil.
    I love rollerblading while the sun is setting.

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