Synonyms of the word

roller

• n. (heading) Anything that rolls.
• n. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
• n. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
• n. (heading) A bird.
• n. (also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
• n. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective).
• n. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
• n. (TV, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
• n. (slang) A wheelchair user.

crimper

• n. Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
• n. (chiefly Britain) hairdresser.
• n. Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
• n. A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
• n. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
• n. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
• n. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• n. An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.

curler

• n. One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
• n. A sportsman who plays curling.
• n. (soccer) A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.

cylinder

• n. (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the…
• n. (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
• n. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
• n. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven…
• n. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
• n. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
• n. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
• n. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
• n. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as…

groundball

• n. Alternative form of ground ball.

grounder

• n. (baseball) A ground ball.
• n. A fruit that has fallen to the ground rather than being picked; a windfall.
• n. One of the large stones forming the base of a Cornish hedge.

hopper

• n. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
• n. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more…
• n. One who hops.
• n. Various insects.
• n. An artificial fishing lure.
• n. (slang) A toilet.
• n. An escapement lever in a piano.
• n. A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
• n. (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
• n. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
• n. A hopper car.

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

tumbler

• n. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
• n. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be…
• n. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
• n. A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in…
• n. A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed…
• n. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during…
• n. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly…
• n. (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
• n. The pupa of a mosquito.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

wheel

• n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing…
• n. A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
• n. (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
• n. (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• n. (automotive) A wheelrim.
• n. A round portion of cheese.
• n. A Catherine wheel firework.
• n. (obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
• n. A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
• n. (computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To roll along on wheels.
• v. (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
• v. (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
• v. (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.