'Rolling' definitions:
Definition of 'rolling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
noun
noun
The act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"
noun
Propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling, rolling]
Definition of 'Rolling'
From: GCIDE
- Rolling \Roll"ing\, a.
- 1. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- Rolling bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
- Rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship. --J. Bourne.
- Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand.
- Rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact.
- Rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc.
- Rolling press. (a) A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers. (b) A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.
- Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.
- Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily. --R. H. Dana, Jr. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rolling'
From: GCIDE
- Roll \Roll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rolling.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. Control, Roll, n., Rotary.]
- 1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean. [1913 Webster]
- The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. [1913 Webster]
- Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Geom.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. [1913 Webster]
- Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- To roll one's self, to wallow.
- To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.
- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rolling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrobatics,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- aerobatics,
- alpen,
- alpestrine,
- alpigene,
- alpine,
- angular momentum,
- angular motion,
- angular velocity,
- axial motion,
- banking,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- black spot,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- booming,
- bowling,
- cannonading,
- careening,
- career,
- centrifugation,
- chandelle,
- circulation,
- circumgyration,
- circumrotation,
- course,
- crabbing,
- dangling,
- definition,
- dive,
- diving,
- fishtailing,
- flare,
- forward motion,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- fringe area,
- full,
- full circle,
- fulminating,
- furtherance,
- furthering,
- ghost,
- glide,
- go-ahead,
- granulation,
- grid,
- gyrating,
- gyration,
- hard shadow,
- headway,
- hilly,
- image,
- knobby,
- lurching,
- march,
- mellow,
- monticuline,
- mountained,
- mountainous,
- multiple image,
- noise,
- nose dive,
- ongoing,
- onward course,
- passage,
- pealing,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- pitching,
- pivoting,
- plangent,
- power dive,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promotion,
- pull-up,
- pullout,
- pulsing,
- pushdown,
- rain,
- reeling,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- revolution,
- revolving,
- rich,
- roaring,
- rocking,
- roll,
- rolling on,
- rotating,
- rotation,
- rotational motion,
- rumbling,
- scanning pattern,
- scintillation,
- shading,
- sideslip,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- sonorous,
- spin,
- spinning,
- spiral,
- stall,
- stunting,
- subalpine,
- surgy,
- swaying,
- swinging,
- swirling,
- swiveling,
- tactical maneuvers,
- throbbing,
- thundering,
- thunderlike,
- thunderous,
- thundery,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tossing,
- travel,
- trolling,
- trundling,
- turbination,
- turning,
- twirling,
- undulant,
- undulate,
- undulated,
- undulating,
- undulative,
- undulatory,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- volleying,
- volplane,
- volutation,
- volution,
- wavy,
- way,
- wheeling,
- whir,
- whirling,
- zoom
Words containing 'Rolling'
- Roll,
- Rolled,
- To roll about,
- roll down,
- roll in,
- roll off,
- roll on,
- roll out,
- roll over,
- roll up,
- Court rolls,
- Finishing rolls,
- Fire roll,
- Forge rolls,
- Kitcat roll,
- Long roll,
- Master of the rolls,
- Muster roll,
- Patent rolls,
- Pay roll,
- Planishing rolls,
- Ragman's roll,
- Rent roll,
- Roll call,
- Roll latten,
- Roll train,
- Rolling Fields,
- Rolling Fork,
- Rolling Hills,
- Rolling Meadows,
- Rolling Oaks,
- Rolling bridge,
- Rolling fire,
- Rolling friction,
- Rolling mill,
- Rolling plant,
- Rolling press,
- Rolling stock,
- Rolling tackle,
- Rolls of court,
- Roughing rolls,
- Size roll,
- To call the roll,
- To roll the eye,
- Train of rolls,
- Whip roll,
- barrel roll,
- chequer roll,
- church roll,
- cinnamon roll,
- coffee roll,
- crescent roll,
- drum roll,
- egg roll,
- get rolling,
- hamburger roll,
- hard roll,
- honor roll,
- kaiser roll,
- music roll,
- onion roll,
- pinwheel roll,
- pipe roll,
- rock and roll,
- roll around,
- roll back,
- roll film,
- roll in the hay,
- roll of tobacco,
- roll-on,
- roll-on roll-off,
- rolled biscuit,
- rolled into one,
- rolled oats,
- rolled rolled-upprenominal,
- rolling hitch,
- rolling paper,
- rolling pin,
- rolling stone,
- rolling wave,
- sausage roll,
- snap roll,
- soft roll,
- spring roll,
- sweet roll,
- swiss roll,
- toilet roll,
- vienna roll,
- Counter-roll,
- Rolling Fields, KY,
- Rolling Fork, MS,
- Rolling Hills Estates,
- Rolling Hills, CA,
- Rolling Hills, KY,
- Rolling Hills, WY,
- Rolling Meadows, IL,
- Rolling Oaks, FL,
- Rolling-pin,
- To roll one's r's,
- To roll one's self,
- death-roll,
- finger-roll,
- jelly roll morton,
- parker house roll,
- ragman-roll,
- rent-roll,
- rock 'n' roll,
- rock'n'roll,
- rock-and-roll,
- Rolling Hills Estates, CA,
- Rolling circle of a paddle wheel,
- clover-leaf roll,
- convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself,
- rock 'n' roll musician,
- involute rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward