roller

noun

1) (heavy, for pressing, smoothing road, lawn, etc.) Walze, die; (smaller, for towel, painting, pastry) Rolle, die

2) (for hair) Lockenwickler, der

put one's hair in rollers — sich (Dat.) die Haare aufdrehen

3) (wave) Roller, der (Meeresk.)

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noun

1) (any of a number of tube-shaped objects, or machines fitted with one or more such objects, for flattening, crushing, printing etc: a garden roller; a road-roller.) die Walze

2) (a small tube-shaped object on which hair is wound to curl it.) der Lockenwickler

3) (a small solid wheel or cylinder on which something can be rolled along.) die Rolle

4) (a long large wave on the sea.) die Sturzwelle

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roll·er

[ˈrəʊləʳ, AM ˈroʊlɚ]

n

1. TECH Walze f

2. (for paint) Rolle f, Roller m

3. (for hair) Lockenwickler m

4. MED Rollbinde f

5. (wave) Brecher m

6. (tumbling bird) Blauracke f

7. (pigeon) Tümmler m

8. (canary) Harzer Roller m

9. (for horse) Sattel-/Packgurt m

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['rəʊlə(r)]

n

1) (for pressing, smoothing) Rolle f; (= pastry roller) Nudelholz nt; (for lawn, road, IND) Walze f; (= paint roller) Rolle f

2) (for winding sth round) Rolle f; (= hair roller) (Locken)wickler m

to put one's hair in rollers — sich (dat) die Haare aufdrehen or eindrehen

with her rollers in — mit Lockenwicklern (im Haar)

3) (for moving things) Rolle f; (log-shaped) Rollklotz m

4) (= wave) Brecher m

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roller [ˈrəʊlə(r)] s

1. TECH

a) Walzwerkarbeiter m

b) Fördermann m, Schlepper m

2. TECH (Gleit-, Lauf-, Führungs) Rolle f

3. TECH Walze f, Zylinder m, Trommel f, Rolle f

4. TECH Schreibwalze f (einer Schreibmaschine)

5. TYPO Druckwalze f

6. MUS Walze f (einer Orgel etc)

7. Rollstab m (zum Aufwickeln von Landkarten etc)

8. MED Rollbinde f

9. SCHIFF Roller m, schwerer Brecher, Sturzwelle

10. ORN

a) Flug-, Tümmlertaube f

b) (eine) Ra(c)ke:

common roller Blaura(c)ke

c) Harzer Roller m

11. US sl Bulle m pej (Polizist)

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noun

1) (heavy, for pressing, smoothing road, lawn, etc.) Walze, die; (smaller, for towel, painting, pastry) Rolle, die

2) (for hair) Lockenwickler, der

put one's hair in rollers — sich (Dat.) die Haare aufdrehen

3) (wave) Roller, der (Meeresk.)

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n.

Rolle -n f.

Walze -n f.