Rolling

Definition: Rolling

Rolling

Adjective

1. Characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder".

2. Uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish".

3. Moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids".

Noun

1. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).

2. The act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park".

3. Propelling something on wheels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rolling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Military & Defense

Shipping

Slang

Transportation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Rolling

Amusement

Amused; Verb: "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"; laughing; Verb:; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles.

Changeableness

Phrase: "a rolling stone gathers no moss"; pictra mossa non fa muschis; honores mutant mores; varium et mutabile semper femina.

Friction

Rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction.

River

Phrase: "for men may come and men may go but I go on forever"; "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along".

Smoothness

Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Wealth

Made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.

Crosswords: Rolling

And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were I'm on drugs (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

If your initial investment is a half a million dollars and your apartments are up in March, you should have x amount of dollars rolling in by the end of this year (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Well, that will have them rolling in the aisles (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Have the Rolling Stones killed (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Rolling Stones, 11 years old. (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster)

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

When you're rolling in dollars (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

For the Rolling Stones (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Rolling in the mud (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple)

1968: Rolling Stones. 1998: Kidney stones. (references; author: unknown)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973)

Rolling Man (1972)

The Rolling Stones (1960)

Rolling Down to Reno (1947)

Keep 'Em Rolling (1942)

Papa Was A Rolling Stone (performing artist: The Temptations)

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References

• The World Market for Thread Rolling Machines for Working Metal: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Rolling Stones 2003 Calendar (reference)

• Rolling Stones Rip This Joint: The Stories Behind Every Song (reference)

• Rolling with the Stones (reference)

• The Candlemaker's Companion: A Complete Guide to Rolling, Pouring, Dipping, and Decorating Your Own Candles (reference)

• The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Rolling Pin (reference)

• Rolling Pin International Canada (reference)

• Rolling Stone (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection (reference)

• The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Green Rolling Hills (reference)

• Rolling Stone Presents: The 70's California Sound (reference)

• Rolling Uphill from Texas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Hakuba Rolling Ball Pen (Silver) (reference)

• Rolling Thunder (reference)

• Fellowes Rolling Printer Workstation Printer Stand On Wheels- 75LB (reference)

• Solo Rolling Office Laptop Caseblack (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hardwood Rolling Pin (reference)

• Non-Stick Rolling Pin (reference)

• McGuire Nicholas 22324 Builder's Rolling Tool Bag (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Fog rolling over the Chisos Range Scene observed from Station Chisos on Emory Peak. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Surf rolling into the beach at aptly named Surf, California. Credit: America's Coastlines.

YEEHAW!!! Oh for a life on the rolling sea! DELAWARE II stirring up landlubbers stomachs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Coral branches that fell in sand corridors bordering the reef are stressed when they become abraded by rolling in the sand. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The fourth in a series of images that show the specialized "spyder" at work at the Glade Bekken restoration site. The spyder was used at the restoration site to prevent and minimize disturbance to the habitat. The machine crawls and walks over the surface as opposed to rolling over and flattening sensitive habitats. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Launching meteorological balloons on the stern of the METEOR; gun practice; working on a rolling deck; air-conditioning for the crew (sleeping on deck in hammocks.) Plate 19. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 42. Top: Richard apparatus for examining live plankton. Bottom: a sample holding tank for studying plankton. Devised by Dr. Jules Richard in 1905 and used aboard the PRINCESSE-ALICE II. It was meant to allow study under ship conditions including rolling and pitching. This instrument was also used in shore laboratories. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

University of Hawaii research vessel TERITU at Gardner Pinnacles. Known as the "Terrible Two" because of rolling ability. Credit: Small World.

The rolling countryside of Las Villas Province. Credit: Small World.

The Empire and Cienega ranches, along with portions of the adjacent Rose Tree Ranch, were acquired by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in June 1988. BLM's acquisition included rolling grasslands and woodlands. Credit: Unknown.

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As regards the railways an equitable apportionment of rolling stock shall be made by a mixed Commission on which the Government of the territory of the Saar Basin and the German railways will be represented. (reference)

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He was nervously rolling and unrolling several other scrolls, and making room among them for the one the Warden had just handed to him.

The furious rolling of the cart filled the measure of possible delay, and determined the sergeant to attempt a reconnaissance

The cars were rolling on the gravel

They crawled over the ground, laying the track and rolling on it and picking it up.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass

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Health

Heating the water to a rolling boil for at least 1 minute. (references)

Signs of drugs and drug paraphernalia, including pipes and rolling papers. (references)

Heating water at a rolling boil for 1 minute kills Crypto, according to CDC and EPA scientists. (references)

Business

Argentines tend to favor the American design, with long rolling fairways that do not affect the play or the ball position. (references)

For their market expansion efforts, they maximize revenues versus costs by rolling out in densely populated areas where it can potentially ride on PLDT’s backbone. (references)

More companies are including office caddies as part of their product line. The caddies, rolling containers to hold each employee’s work documents, are easily transportable and are increasingly useful as workstations are shared and work places are no longer permanent. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

Terrain: Generally flat or rolling. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Terrain: Mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills. (references)

Netherlands

Manufacturing and sales of aluminum rolling and extrusion and end products. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

In this manner, rolling charges can be used to hold a suspect in custody continuously. (references)

Nepal

According to AI, torture methods include boxing of the ears, beating of the feet, and the rolling of weights over the thighs. (references)

Trade

Mauritius

Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references)

Travel

Yemen

Yemen's large cities often experience rolling blackouts because of insufficient power capacity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rolling

Rolling

Expressions using "rolling": a rolling stone gathers no moss ♦ be rolling in money ♦ finish rolling ♦ get rolling ♦ keep assembly lines rolling ♦ keep the ball rolling ♦ pack rolling ♦ rolling barrage ♦ rolling bridge ♦ rolling capitals ♦ rolling chair ♦ rolling circle of a paddle wheel ♦ rolling cones ♦ rolling contact gear ♦ rolling contact gear wheel ♦ rolling contact gears ♦ rolling dog ♦ rolling down ♦ rolling drunk ♦ Rolling Fields ♦ rolling fire ♦ Rolling Fork ♦ rolling frame ♦ rolling friction ♦ rolling guide ♦ Rolling Hills ♦ rolling hills estates ♦ rolling hitch ♦ rolling in riches ♦ rolling in the aisles ♦ rolling in wealth ♦ rolling iron ♦ rolling kitchen ♦ rolling machine ♦ Rolling Meadows ♦ rolling mill ♦ rolling mill consisting of four rolls ♦ rolling mill consisting of three rolls ♦ rolling mill consisting of two rolls ♦ rolling moment ♦ rolling paper ♦ rolling pin ♦ rolling plant ♦ Rolling Prairie ♦ rolling press ♦ rolling road wagon ♦ rolling shutter ♦ rolling stability ♦ rolling stock ♦ rolling stone ♦ rolling tackle ♦ rolling train ♦ rolling up ♦ rolling wave ♦ start the ball rolling ♦ tube rolling. Additional references.

Beginning with "rolling": rolling-collar, rolling-eyed, rolling-in, rolling-in-it, rolling-maul, rolling-mill, rolling-mills, rolling-out, Rolling-pin, rolling-pins, rolling-programme, rolling-stock, rolling-table, rolling-up.

Ending with "rolling": anti-rolling, a-rolling, drum-rolling, egg-rolling, ever-rolling, eye-rolling, half-rolling, hand-rolling, high-rolling, log-rolling, non-rolling, over-rolling, rag-rolling, re-rolling, Retro-rolling.

Containing "rolling": rail-rolling-mill, steel-rolling mill.

Albanian

rrokullisës, që përsëritet, që lëkundet, me rreth, me kodrina, lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متموج (crisp, crispy, undulant, undulate, wavy), ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏قرع الطبول (rataplan, roll, rub a dub, tuck), ‏زالج (slippery), ‏دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo, voluble), ‏دحرجة (roll). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хълмист (billowy, downy, hillocky, hilly), търкаляне (roll, trundle), много богат (made of money). (various references)

Chinese 

辗压. (various references)

Czech

vlnitý (corrugated, crimpy, curly, wavy), pohyblivý (floating, mobile, movable, moveable, moving), kymácení, kymácející se, kolébavý. (various references)

Danish

rulning (barrel roll, gathering, roll), rullen, rullebevaegelse (rolling movement), rulle (roll), valsning, tromling (drumming), slingren (swing), sammenpresning (compaction, compression, consolidation, cramming, debulking, densification, packing, tractor rolling), opvikle (curling, to ball, to wind up, wind, winding), køre fast (compacting), finvalsning (finish rolling). (various references)

Dutch

rondsmeden (gathering), rollen (roll), roulade, verticaal schuiven (vertical scrolling), verdichting (compacting, compaction, compression, congestion, crowding, densification, overcrowding, packing, tractor rolling), vastrijden (compacting), waggelbeweging (rolling movement), walsen, waggelen (hesitate, waver), aanrijden (collide, run), kroezen (crimping, fermenting wort), kneuzen (bruise), het slingeren, gladrollen (finish rolling), drukpolijsten (finish rolling), pletten (hammering). (various references)

Esperanto

riĉega (immensely rich, rolling in money). (various references)

Finnish

rullaus (coasting, curling, freewheeling, reeling, reeling up, roll, winding), rullaantuminen (curling, winding), viljan valssaus, tiivistäminen (calking, caulking, compacting, compaction, impregnation, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up), takovalssaus (gathering), silovalssaaminen (finish rolling), pystysuora rullaus, aaltoileva (surging, swaying, wavy). (various references)

French

roulant, roulement (roll), roulage. (various references)

German

rollend (trundling, weltering). (various references)

Greek 

συμπύκνωση χορτονομής (compaction, packing, tractor rolling), τύλιγμα (furl, kink, wrapping), λοφώδης (hilly), επιφανειακή ισοπέδωση οδοντώσεων (finish rolling), πλάτυνση (widening), περιστροφή ως προς το διαμηκή άξονα (rolling movement), περιέλιξη σε κυλινδρικό ρολό (curling, winding), μπότζι, ισοπέδωση (acuminate, flattening, grading, grinding, land smoothing, leveling, levelling, machine grading, planing, regulating, scraping, scrubbing the soil surface, sharpen, surface grinding, surfacing, the removal of a defined thickness of bituminous materials using a cutting blade, to grind tools, whet 3)grounding), συμπίεση (compression), διατοιχισμός (roll, spin), συμπίεση με ελκυστήρα (compacting), Kατσάρωμα (crimp, crimping), συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding), έλαση, κυλίνδιση, κυλίνδρωση, κυλίνδρισμα, κυλιομένοσ, κυλιώμενος, κύλιση (generation, rolling stock roster, roster), κύλισμα σε μια διεύθυνση, συμπίεση χόρτου (compaction, packing, tractor rolling). (various references)

Hebrew 

פלבול, התגלגלות (development, unfolding), התגוללות (provocation), דרדור (dispersing), גלילה (circuit, province, scroll, scrolling), גלגול (kneading, revolving, tumble, turning round), טלטול (carrying, fling, shake, wandering, yank). (various references)

Hungarian

guruló. (various references)

Indonesian

gemulung. (various references)

Italian

rotolamento (tumbling), rollio (roll). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

動揺 (agitation, disturbance, oscillation, pitching, shaking, trembling, unrest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ローリング , どうよう (agitation, children's song, commotion, disturbance, equal to, excitement, identical, like, nursery rhyme, oscillation, pitching, same, shaking, trembling, unrest), あつえん, よこゆれ (swaying). (various references)

Korean 

구르. (various references)

Manx

rowlal (roll, trill), queeylley (wheeling, whirling). (various references)

Norwegian

kjevle (rolling-pin). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollingray.(various references)

Portuguese

rolante (traveling, travelling), laminagem (lamination, to laminate). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

rolante. (various references)

Romanian

ruliu, rulare, rulant, rostogolire (tumble), tãvãlealã (drubbing, tanning), laminare (flatting, lamination), jucãuş (dancer, frolicsome, jocose, kittenish, lambent, playful, prankish, skittish, wanton), deluros (hilly). (various references)

Russian 

холмистый (hilly), чередующийся (alternate, ding-dong, interchangeable), колесный (wheeled), вращающийся (live, revolutionary, rotational, turning, whirlabout), бортовая качка (roll), прокатный стан (mill, rolling mill, rolling-mill), повторяющийся (iterant, iterative, recurrent, reiterative, repetitious). (various references)

Scottish

ruidhleadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatalasan, talasast (billowy, corrugated, curly, sinuous, undulate, undulating, waved, wavy), talasanje (backwash, ripple, undulation, welter). (various references)

Spanish

rodante. (various references)

Swedish

rullning (roll, twiddling), rullande (roll, welter). (various references)

Thai

การกลิ้ง. (various references)

Turkish

yuvarlanma (roll, wallow, welter), yuvarlanan, yalpalama (stagger, wobble, wriggle), yalpa (roll, shimmy), tekerlekli (wheeled), inişli yokuşlu, haddeden geçirme, gürleme (booming, clap, grumble, peal, roar, roaring, rumble, thundering), gürül gürül akma, gümbürdeme, devrik (inverse, turndown, turned back on itself, turned down), döner (floating, revolving, rotary, rotative, rotatory, swivel, turnable, turning, winding). (various references)

Turkmen 

yrga (pitching). (various references)

Ukrainian

роликовий, обертовий (circumgyration, revolutionary, revolutionist, revolving, rotary, rotating, rotative, whirling), прокатка, повторюваний (iterative, reduplicative, reiterative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cán sự tròng trành. (various references)

Welsh

rholbren (rolling pin). (various references)

volubilis. (various references)

gelac. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "rolling": rollings. (additional references)

Words ending with "rolling": bankrolling, carolling, controlling, decontrolling, drolling, enrolling, enscrolling, inscrolling, jackrolling, logrolling, misenrolling, noncontrolling, outrolling, overcontrolling, patrolling, reenrolling, rerolling, scrolling, steamrolling, strolling, trolling, unrolling. (additional references)

Words containing "rolling": logrollings, trollings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rolling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Drolling, rofling, rollen, rollings, Rollnik, rolming, roolling, Rosling, Roulin, Rowling, rowlings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: giron, grill, groin, lingo.

-3 letters: gill, girl, girn, giro, grin, inro, iron, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lorn, nill, noil, noir, nori, rill, ring, roil, roll.

-4 letters: gin, gor, ill, ion, lin, log, nil, nog, nor, oil, rig, rin.

-5 letters: go, in, li, lo, no, on, or.

+1 letter: drolling, lordling, rollings, trolling.

+2 letters: carolling, collaring, enrolling, hollering, lordlings, repolling, rerolling, rowelling, scrolling, strolling, trollings, trollying, unrolling, worldling.

+3 letters: corbelling, cordelling, corralling, frivolling, grovelling, growlingly, logrolling, morselling, neuroglial, originally, outrolling, patrolling, pillorying, pollarding, propelling, regionally, rollicking, trigonally, trolleying, trowelling, worldlings.

+4 letters: bankrolling, caracolling, controlling, deploringly, enscrolling, foretelling, grovelingly, imploringly, inscrolling, jackrolling, logrollings, nonallergic, organically, overbilling, overcalling, overfilling, overkilling, overselling, reallotting, reenrolling, remodelling, revoltingly, rototilling, vitriolling.