roller (redirected from roller bandages)

roll·er ¹  (rlr)

n.

1. One that rolls or performs a rolling operation or activity.

2. Any of various cylindrical or spherical devices that roll or rotate, especially:

a. A small spokeless wheel, such as that of a roller skate or caster.

b. An elongated cylinder on which something, such as a window shade or towel, is wound.

c. A heavy revolving cylinder that is used to level, crush, or smooth.

d. Printing A cylinder, usually of hard rubber, used to ink the type before the paper is impressed.

e. A cylinder of wire mesh, foam rubber, or other material around which a strand of hair is wound to produce a soft curl or wave.

3. A long rolled bandage.

4. A heavy swelling wave that breaks on a coast.

5. A tumbler pigeon.

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rol·ler ²  (rlr)

n.

1. Any of various Old World birds of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings, stocky bodies, and hooked bills. They are noted for their aggressiveness and their habit of rolling and twisting in flight, especially during the breeding season.

2. A canary that trills.

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[German, from rollen, to roll, burble; see rollmops.]

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roller

Noun

1. a rotating cylinder used for smoothing, supporting a thing to be moved, spreading paint, etc.

2. a small tube around which hair may be wound in order to make it curly

3. a long heavy wave of the sea

4. a cylinder fitted on pivots, used to enable heavy objects to be easily moved

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	roller - a grounder that rolls along the infield ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper - (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
	2.	roller - a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore rolling wave, roll moving ridge, wave - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
	3.	roller - a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) caster, castor - a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable roller skate - a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole wheel - a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
	4.	roller - a cylinder that revolves garden roller - heavy cast-iron cylinder used to flatten lawns paint roller - a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint platen - the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike roller blind - a window shade that rolls up out of the way sprocket - roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through trundle - small wheel or roller cylinder - a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
	5.	roller - 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" curler, hair curler, crimper mechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles
	6.	roller - Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers coraciiform bird - chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes Coraciidae, family Coraciidae - rollers Coracias garrulus, European roller - common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back ground roller - Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms
	7.	roller - pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground tumbler pigeon, tumbler domestic pigeon - domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food

Translations

roller [ˈrəuləʳ] n → rodillo;

(wheel) → rueda

roller [ˈrəuləʳ] roll n → rouleau m (= wheel); roulette f;

(for road) → rouleau compresseur; [for hair]; bigoudi m

roller [ˈrəuləʳ] roll n → Rolle f;

(for lawn, road) → Walze f;

(for hair) → Lockenwickler m

roller [ˈrəuləʳ] n → rullo;

(wheel) → rotella