roller

«roller» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a tube or cylinder that turns, used to flatten, spread or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a roller, rollers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A roller is a tube or cylinder that turns, used to flatten, spread or move things. tree →

2) A paint roller is a tool for painting walls. tree →

3) A hair roller (curler) is a small tube to curl hair. tree →

4) A roller is a big wave rolling in from the sea. tree →

5) A roller is a heavy machine that flattens roads or ground. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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

• 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 →
• Dad painted the wall with a roller. tree →
• Grandma slept in hair rollers. tree →
• We went on the roller coaster at the fair. tree →
• I got roller skates for my birthday. tree →
• The steamroller flattened the new road. tree →
• Huge rollers crashed onto the beach. tree →
• The Egyptians may have moved stones on wooden rollers. tree →
• 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 →

note

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

In the corpora

• Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
• A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists.
• Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.
• A swing is fastest at the bottom and slowest at the top, and a roller coaster swaps height and speed the same way.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «roller» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.