Roller
['rəʊlə] or ['rolɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a grounder that rolls along the infield.
(noun.) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground.
(noun.) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers.
(noun.) a cylinder that revolves.
(noun.) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate).
(noun.) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.
錄入:丽贝卡--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
(n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
(n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
(n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
(n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
(n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
(n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
(n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
錄入:费尔普斯
例句/造句/用法:
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The most modern method of design-making is that of machine or roller printing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The various tones must be changed either to lines or dots, so as to make a printing surface for the ink roller of the press to operate. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the center or axial hole of the roller fits the balance staff, which staff also carries the balance wheel, and the balance spring, commonly called the hair spring. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Finger pawls, working into ratchets at the ends of the roller, serve to rotate it after each line is printed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The printing ink is applied with large rollers, and the damped paper having been placed carefully upon the stone, with blankets at the back, it is passed through the press. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- When the proper fineness had been obtained in this way, the cotton, as it passed from the second pair of rollers, was twisted into a firm strong thread by spindles attached to the frame. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The upper half of the wire cloth belt is supported by and runs over a series of closely juxtaposed rollers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- About two hundred ingots are run through per hour on each pair of rollers. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- After weeks of work he brought his teacher a remarkably exact map of the world, drawn to scale, and outlined in ink on paper pasted on linen, and fastened on two rollers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The number of rollers and cylinders and the position and the length of the process to fully dry, compact, stretch and finish the sheet, may be, and are, varied greatly. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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