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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#m1)

2) A paint roller is a tool for painting walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#m2)

3) A hair roller (curler) is a small tube to curl hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#m3)

4) A roller is a big wave rolling in from the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#m4)

5) A roller is a heavy machine that flattens roads or ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x1)
- Dad painted the wall with a roller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x2)
- Grandma slept in hair rollers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x3)
- We went on the roller coaster at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x4)
- I got roller skates for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x5)
- The steamroller flattened the new road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x6)
- Huge rollers crashed onto the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x7)
- The Egyptians may have moved stones on wooden rollers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x8)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/)
- [A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/5/)
- [Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/13/)
- [A swing is fastest at the bottom and slowest at the top, and a roller coaster swaps height and speed the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.