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# roller

noun (a roller, rollers)

«roller» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A roller is a tube or cylinder that turns, used to flatten, spread or move things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#m1)
2. A paint roller is a tool for painting walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#m2)
3. A hair roller (curler) is a small tube to curl hair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#m3)
4. A roller is a big wave rolling in from the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#m4)
5. A roller is a heavy machine that flattens roads or ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#m5)

### In the lessons

In everyday life: paint rollers, hair rollers, roller skates, roller coasters, rolling pins. In science, rollers reduce friction for moving heavy things. Phrases: «roller skates», «roller coaster», «roller blind», «paint roller».

### Examples

- Dad painted the wall with a roller. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x1)
- Grandma slept in hair rollers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x2)
- We went on the roller coaster at the fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x3)
- I got roller skates for my birthday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x4)
- The steamroller flattened the new road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x5)
- Huge rollers crashed onto the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x6)
- The Egyptians may have moved stones on wooden rollers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x7)
- The whole twelve of them set to work with poles and rollers and rolled the big mill-stone to the brink of the well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Many compounds: roller coaster, roller skate, roller blind, steamroller. Rollers make moving things easier because rolling has less friction than sliding.

## In Jewish tradition

It belongs to a picture of a farmer who knows how to treat each crop with care.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads this as showing that God, like a wise farmer, uses only as much hardship as is needed and does not crush His people.

### Examples

- Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it. (Prophets ISA.28.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x1)

### Note

Countable. Many compounds: roller coaster, roller skate, roller blind, steamroller. Rollers make moving things easier because rolling has less friction than sliding.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «roller» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roller/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roller» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/roller.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «roller» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roller» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/roller.html) on Mova free.