📖 R — The English dictionary · page 47

robocall — Everyday, meaning 1: A robocall is an automatic phone call made by a computer, which plays a recorded message to many people at once, often to sell something, give information or trick people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To robocall is to make such calls.↗ Example: We got another robocall about a car warranty.↗ · The school sent a robocall saying it was closed for snow.↗ · If a robocall asks for money, hang up.↗ · Never press a number on a scam robocall.↗ · Robocalls use a recorded voice, not a real person.↗ · Politicians sometimes use robocalls before elections.↗ · Grandma gets so many robocalls she stopped answering.↗

robot — Everyday, meaning 1: A robot is a machine that can do jobs by itself, following a program; some move and act like a person or an animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A robot can also mean a person who acts without feeling or thinking, like a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In South Africa, a robot is a traffic light.↗ Example: A robot makes 12 toys an hour.↗ · The club built 4 robots.↗ · Each robot needs 6 batteries.↗ · How many toys do 3 robots make in 5 hours?↗ · We programmed a small robot to move in a square.↗ · A robot rover explores the surface of Mars.↗ · Robots build cars in big factories.↗ · Our robot vacuum cleans the floor by itself.↗ · In the film, the robot learns to make friends.↗

robotic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with robots, or done by a robot: a robotic arm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Moving or speaking stiffly, without feeling, like a robot: a robotic voice.↗ Example: The factory uses robotic arms to build cars.↗ · A robotic rover is exploring Mars.↗ · We built a robotic hand from straws and string.↗ · He answered in a flat, robotic voice.↗ · After the long day, she moved in a robotic way.↗ · Doctors can now do robotic surgery with tiny tools.↗

robust — Everyday, meaning 1: Strong and healthy: a robust child.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strongly made, not easy to break: a robust bike.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Able to keep working well in many conditions: a robust plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of food or wine) Strong and full in flavour.↗ Example: This robust lunchbox won't crack if you drop it.↗ · The bridge is a robust design.↗ · Grandad is still robust and walks every day.↗ · We need a robust plan in case it rains.↗ · The soup had a robust flavour.↗ · A robust test works even with a few mistakes in the data.↗ · The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office.↗

roc — Everyday, meaning 1: A roc is a huge bird of legend, in Arabian tales, strong enough to carry off an elephant or a ship.↗ Example: The roc flew over the sea with a elephant in its claws.↗ · Sinbad saw a roc's egg on the island.↗ · A genie promised to bring a roc's egg.↗

rock — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard, solid material that the Earth's surface is made of.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A large stone.↗ e.g. "sitting on a rock".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A kind of loud popular music with guitars and drums.↗ e.g. "rock music".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb, to move gently from side to side or back and forth.↗ e.g. "rock the baby".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: As a verb, to shake or shock.↗ e.g. "The earthquake rocked the town."↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A hard sweet in a stick (British seaside rock).↗ Example: This rock has a fossil in it.↗ · We sat on a big rock.↗ · Rocks slowly break down into sand.↗ · Granite is a very hard rock.↗ · Rock the baby to sleep.↗ · The earthquake rocked the city.↗ · Look for crabs in the rock pools.↗ · My dad loves rock music.↗ · The ship had struck upon a rock.↗ · For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.↗ (Torah DEU.32.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And it is said: Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted; (Torah DEU.32.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee.↗ (Torah DEU.32.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Do horses run upon the rocks?↗ (Prophets AMO.6.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And who is a Rock, except our God?↗ (Writings PSA.18.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.↗ (Prophets ISA.44.8, JPS 1917)↗

rocket — Everyday, meaning 1: A rocket is a tall vehicle with powerful engines that pushes it up into space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rocket is also a firework that shoots high into the sky and explodes in colours.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To rocket is to rise or move very fast, like prices going up quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, rocket is a salad leaf with a peppery taste; Americans call it arugula.↗ Example: The rocket blasted off into space.↗ · We made a rocket from a plastic bottle and water.↗ · A firework rocket burst into red stars.↗ · Only adults should light firework rockets.↗ · The price of bananas rocketed.↗ · He rocketed down the slide.↗ · Grandma put rocket leaves in the salad.↗ · Tying your shoes is easy; it's not rocket science.↗

rocky — Everyday, meaning 1: Rocky means covered with rocks or made of rock, like a rocky beach or rocky hills.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rocky can mean shaky or not steady, like a rocky table.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rocky can mean difficult and with problems, like a rocky start.↗ Example: We explored the rock pools on the rocky beach.↗ · Wear trainers on the rocky path.↗ · Mars is a rocky planet.↗ · The Rocky Mountains run through Canada and the USA.↗ · Their friendship had a rocky start but now they are best friends.↗ · The wobbly table was a bit rocky.↗ · Goats climbed the rocky hillside.↗ · Rocky road is a chocolate treat with marshmallows.↗ · He went to the rocky wall, and took the club, and knocked on it.↗

rod — Everyday, meaning 1: A rod is a long thin straight stick of wood, metal or plastic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fishing rod is a long pole with a line, used to catch fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rod is an old unit of length, about 5 meters (5½ yards).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rods are also cells in the eye that help you see in dim light.↗ Example: A metal rod is 2 meters long.↗ · He cut the rod into 5 equal parts.↗ · Each fishing rod costs $25.↗ · They have 3 rods and catch 12 fish.↗ · A lightning rod on the roof keeps the house safe.↗ · Hang the curtains on the rod.↗ · We used coloured rods to show that 3 + 2 = 5.↗ · Rod cells help us see in the dark.↗ · Grandpa took his fishing rod down to the river.↗ · And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as He commanded him.↗ (Torah NUM.20.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.'↗ (Torah EXO.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.↗ (Torah NUM.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · For there is a trial; and what if it contemn even the rod?↗ (Prophets EZK.21.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Their houses are safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.↗ (Writings JOB.21.9, JPS 1917)↗

rodent — Everyday, meaning 1: A rodent is a small mammal with sharp front teeth that keep growing, such as a mouse, rat, squirrel, hamster, guinea pig or beaver.↗ Example: A mouse is a rodent.↗ · Beavers are the largest rodents in North America.↗ · Rodents' teeth never stop growing.↗ · Our class pet is a rodent called Nibbles.↗ · The owl hunts rodents at night.↗ · Is a rabbit a rodent?↗ No, it belongs to a different group.↗ · The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar.↗

rodeo — Everyday, meaning 1: A rodeo is a show and competition where cowboys and cowgirls ride bucking horses and bulls, rope calves and race horses round barrels.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A rodeo can mean any noisy, chaotic event.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «This isn't my first rodeo» (US, informal) means «I have done this before, I have experience».↗ Example: We watched barrel racing at the rodeo.↗ · The cowboy stayed on the bull for eight seconds.↗ · The Calgary Stampede has one of the biggest rodeos in the world.↗ · Some animal charities say rodeos are cruel to the animals.↗ · Don't worry about me, this isn't my first rodeo.↗ · Rodeo clowns help protect riders who fall off.↗ · The town holds a rodeo every summer.↗

roe — Everyday, meaning 1: Roe is the mass of eggs inside a female fish, often eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A roe or roe deer is a small deer of Europe and Asia with a reddish coat; the male is called a roebuck.↗ Example: The salmon laid her roe in the gravel of the river.↗ · Caviar is a very expensive kind of roe.↗ · Grandad likes cod roe on toast.↗ · We saw a roe deer at the edge of the wood.↗ · The orange balls on the sushi were fish roe.↗ · A roe deer is smaller than a red deer.↗ · The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens.↗ · And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel was as light of foot as one of the roes that are in the field.↗ (Prophets 2SA.2.18, JPS 1917)↗

roebuck — Everyday, meaning 1: A roebuck is a male roe deer, a small wild deer of the woods, with short antlers.↗ Example: A roebuck stepped out from the trees.↗ · The hunter found a roebuck in the wood.↗ · The roebuck ran off among the ferns.↗ · the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.↗ (Torah DEU.14.5, JPS 1917)↗ · ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.↗ (Prophets 1KI.5.3, JPS 1917)↗

rogue — Everyday, meaning 1: A dishonest person who cheats or tricks people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (playful) A naughty but likeable person, often a child: «You little rogue!».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Behaving differently from the rest and causing trouble or danger, as in «a rogue wave», «a rogue elephant», «a rogue trader».↗ Example: The rogue sold fake watches at the market.↗ · Toad was called a rogue and a ruffian by the court.↗ · «You little rogue, you've eaten my biscuit!» laughed Nan.↗ · A rogue wave knocked the sailors off their feet.↗ · The rogue elephant was dangerous to the villages.↗ · In the game, one robot goes rogue.↗ · He was a charming rogue who always owed money.↗ · One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance.↗

roguish — Everyday, meaning 1: Roguish means playful and a little naughty or sly, as in a cheeky smile or a twinkle in the eye.↗ Example: He gave a roguish grin.↗ · The cat had a roguish look.↗ · The two boys were bold and roguish.↗

roi — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) Roi is the French word for king, as in «le roi» (the king); it is not an English word.↗ To an English ear it sounds like «rwah».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (business, abbreviation) In English, ROI (written in capitals) stands for «return on investment»: how much money you get back compared with what you spent.↗ Example: (French) Le roi habite dans un grand château. — The king lives in a big castle.↗ · (French) Vive le roi! means «Long live the king!»↗ · In January French families share a galette des rois, and whoever finds the little toy becomes king for the day.↗ · The name Leroy comes from French «le roi», the king.↗ · Louis XIV of France was called le Roi Soleil, the Sun King.↗ · (business) The shop worked out the ROI on its new sign.↗ · (business) A good ROI means you earn back more than you spent.↗ · These biographies are written with kindly justice, and form a valuable contribution to the history of the reign of the Roi Soleil.↗ · Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.↗ (Torah GEN.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.↗ (Torah GEN.24.62, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.↗ (Torah GEN.25.11, JPS 1917)↗

role — Everyday, meaning 1: A role is a part that an actor plays in a film, play or show.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A role is a job, position or purpose someone or something has, like the role of a captain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A role is how important something is in a situation, as in "play a big role".↗ Example: I got the role of the wolf in the school play.↗ · What is the role of the heart in the body?↗ · My big sister is my role model.↗ · In role play, we practised what to do if a stranger asks us to go with them.↗ · Exercise plays an important role in staying healthy.↗ · Her role in the team is goalkeeper.↗ · Mum took on the role of class rep this year.↗ · The text is intimately concerned with the role of language in the Work of Creation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · In the above explained system of notation from which our system of notation originated, the principle of position (place value) plays an important role.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

roll — Everyday, meaning 1: To roll is to turn over and over, like a ball moving along the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To roll is to move on wheels: the car rolled down the hill.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A roll is a small round bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A roll is a long piece of paper, tape, film or cloth wound up into a tube shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To roll dice is to throw them.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A roll is a list of names: the class roll.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: A roll is a long deep sound: a roll of thunder, a drum roll.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: To roll can also mean to move forward steadily, like a wave.↗ Example: She bought 12 dinner rolls.↗ · Each roll of tape is 30 meters long.↗ · He rolled a 6 on the die.↗ · A roll of stickers has 50 stickers.↗ · The ball rolled down the hill.↗ · Roll the dough into a long snake.↗ · The teacher called the roll.↗ · There was a roll of thunder.↗ · Roll up your sleeves before you wash the paint pots.↗ · Now a wave came rolling onward.↗ · And they said: 'We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.'↗ (Torah GEN.29.8, JPS 1917)↗ · So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.↗ (Prophets EZK.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.↗ (Prophets ZEC.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.↗ (Prophets MIC.1.10, JPS 1917)↗