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"ROLLERS" is a plural of: roller. |
Date "ROLLERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Sustaining the free end of the bucket chain and supporting the bag of the bucket chain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Byproduct of spinning, characteristic of its ringlook. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Small rotating bodies in the form of balls, wheels, cylinders or truncated cones, used to assist movement by reducing friction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ROLLERS |
| English words defined with "ROLLERS": calender, calendered, Coraciidae, Coraciiformes, Crimping machine ♦ Expansion coupling, Expansion joint ♦ family Coraciidae, family Tortricidae, Friction balls, Friction drop hammer, Friction rollers ♦ glossy, ground roller, Ground sea ♦ in-line skate ♦ Kirumbo ♦ Licker in, Live ring ♦ mangle, Muck iron ♦ order Coraciiformes, Overhung door ♦ print ♦ road roller, rock bit, roller bit, roller blade, Roller mill, roller skate, Rolling press ♦ skateboard, slitting roller, steamroller, Sugar mill ♦ Tortricidae. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ROLLERS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (scooters). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can't believe we spent $2,000 on this when right now rollers could be kneading my buttocks. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Rock & rollers with one foot in their grave. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Lyrics | Rollers wanna roll (Feelin' On Yo Booty; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | High Rollers (1974) Unholy Rollers (1972) Log Rollers (1953) Or The Hobo on Rollers Awful Skate (1907) High Rollers (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A boom on rollers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New Englan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor's chair in a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Glass rollers on the legs are old insulators from telephone lines. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Quaker Oats Factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Battery of rollers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Canadian scenes. Crew of log rollers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Devere's High Rollers Burlesque Co. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Track; rollers; metal; roller; rolling; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Before the door in an old chair on rollers, there sat a man with white hair, looking with smiling gaze upon the setting sun. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Business | Decorating power tools include steam wallpaper strippers, and powered paint rollers. (references) | |
Hand tools comprise hammers, screwdrivers, planes and saws for carpentry, decorating tools such as heat guns, paintbrushes and rollers, as well as a wide range of gardening tools. (references) | ||
Sole national agents are required for specified products only, mainly certain types of heavy equipment such as road rollers, hoist and lifting equipment, tractors, and cement-mixing machines, motorcycles, cars and trucks. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ecuador | Track type tractors, cable cars for pipeline installation, motor graders, rollers, tandem rollers, pneumatic rollers, finishers, road reclaimers and dump trucks are considered best prospect products in this sector. (references) |
Ukraine | The best prospects for U.S. companies include: pipeline construction equipment (compressors and pumps for pipeline applications+ADs- gas transmission systems+ADs- gas pipeline leaks control systems+ADs- gas pipe fittings and applications+ADs- welding machines, cranes, pipe-cleaning equipment, and line trend machines)+ADs- advanced and highly efficient oil and gas exploration and drilling equipment and technologies (pontoons supported on columns, hoisting cranes, drilling rigs, bits, electric motors, winch rollers, rotary tables, sheds, hoisting blocks, monkey boards, crown blocks, gin holes, shackles, cutting, roller and diamond bits, casing sleeves, chemicals, stimulation technologies, modern 3-D seismic, particularly for offshore projects where Ukrainian technology is very limited)+ADs- equipment for atmospheric-vacuum oil refining+ADs- modernization and increasing of hydro-cracking and catalytic cracking capacities+ADs- units for catalytic transformation of distillates+ADs- industrial automation, control and monitoring systems for refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants+ADs- desulfurization and quality control facilities+ADs- safety systems+ADs- fuel dispensers, fuel storage tanks, fuel level monitoring and accounting systems. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ROLLERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.63% of the time. "ROLLERS" is used about 298 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.63% | 282 | 17,376 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.37% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 298 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ROLLERS": Friction rollers ♦ put in rollers. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ROLLERS": snot-rollers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROLLERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 路辗 (roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ruller, spinderi biprodukt (couronners), lejeruller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rollen (roll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vetovalssijärjestelmä (draw roller system, three rollers), tähdenmuotoinen kumitela (star shaped rubber rollers), kolme valssia (draw roller system, three rollers), käämikoneen apuvalssit (assisting rollers of a speed frame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rouleaux, noils, galets. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eimerkettenfuehrungsrollen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυλινδρικό εξάρτημα μηχανής, υποπροϊόν (by product), λαναρία πεννιέ (couronners), τροχοί στήριξης και οδήγησης της καδοφόρου αλυσίδας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szekta (bible-christians, faction, holy rollers, sect), protestáns szekta (holy rollers), protestáns (consistory, evangelical, holy rollers, protestant, reformed), féktelen érzelemkitöréseket mutató szekta (holy rollers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rulli di sostengo della parte pendente della catenaria, rotelle, noils (couronners), anelli (couronners, rings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 롤러 (roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollersray desperdícios de fiação (couronners). (various references) rodillos. (various references) trevalsutmatningssystem (draw roller system, three rollers), styrvalsar för utmatning (draw roller system, three rollers), stjärnformad gummivals (star shaped rubber rollers), ledvalsar hos vingspinnmaskin (assisting rollers of a speed frame), bakre matarvalsar hos horisontalöppnare (bock feed rollers of an horizontal opener). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ROLLERS": bankrollers, carollers, comptrollers, controllers, enrollers, logrollers, patrollers, rerollers, steamrollers, strollers, trollers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ROLLERS": comptrollership, comptrollerships, controllership, controllerships. (additional references) | |
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"ROLLERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bollers, rallyers, rillets, Rnolles, roeler, roler, rollar, Rollos, ronler, Roulers, Roullier, Rullier, tollers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ROLLERS" (pronounced rō"lerz) |
| 5 | r ō" l er z | controllers, strollers. |
| 4 | -ō" l er z | bowlers. |
| 3 | -l er z | anglers, antlers, assemblers, babblers, bachelors, bestsellers, binoculars, boilers, booksellers, bottlers, broilers, bunglers, burglars, butlers, callers, caterpillars, cellars, chancellors, chroniclers, circulars, cobblers, collars, colors, compilers, coolers, councilors, counsellors, counselors, couplers, cullers, curlers, dealers, discolors, Distillers, dollars, drillers, dwellers, embezzlers, feelers, fellers, fiddlers, filers, fillers, gamblers, gillers, gobblers, guzzlers, handlers, haulers, healers, hecklers, hollers, hustlers, installers, irregulars, jailers, jewelers, jewellers, jugglers, killers, levelers, mailers, Millers, mufflers, Oilers, painkillers, panhandlers, parlors, particulars, peddlers, petrodollars, pillars, preschoolers, propellers, ramblers, recyclers, regulars, resellers, retailers, revelers, rulers, rustlers, sailors, samplers, schedulers, scholars, scribblers, sellers, settlers, shufflers, smugglers, spellers, spillers, spoilers, sprinklers, Staplers, storytellers, stragglers, swindlers, tailors, tellers, temblors, templars, thrillers, toddlers, trailers, travelers, travellers, trawlers, tumblers, warblers, watercolors, whalers, Wheelers, whistlers, wholesalers, willers, wranglers, wrestlers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rerolls. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: reroll, roller, sorrel. | |
-2 letters: lores, losel, loser, orles, roles, rolls, sorel, sorer. | |
-3 letters: ells, eros, errs, lore, lose, oles, ores, orle, roes, role, roll, rose, sell, sloe, sole, sore. | |
-4 letters: ell, els, err, ers, oes, ole, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, sel, ser, sol. | |
-5 letters: el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: stroller, trollers. | |
+2 letters: carollers, enrollers, reenrolls, rerollers, rollovers, rostellar, strollers. | |
+3 letters: drolleries, frivollers, logrollers, patrollers, propellers, propellors. | |
+4 letters: bankrollers, barcarolles, controllers, cordilleras, corollaries, forestaller, foretellers, irresoluble, ritornellos, rototillers, steamroller, storyteller, trelliswork. | |
+5 letters: allegorizers, broomballers, comptrollers, dorsolateral, floorwalkers, forestallers, gallerygoers, irresolutely, irresolvable, orchestrally, petrodollars, remorsefully, steamrollers, storytellers, trellisworks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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