rolling
See also: Rolling
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
- Homophone: Rowling
Adjective
rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)
- (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
- Staggered in time and space.
- a 90-day rolling business plan
- rolling blackouts or brownouts
- Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
- 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], OCLC 1394762, stanza II, page 53:
- The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.
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- Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
- 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
- From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
- 2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
- I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca
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- Making a continuous sound.
Synonyms
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
- (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
- (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
- (undulating of the landscape):
Derived terms
- rolling backup
- rolling boil
- rolling chair
- rolling cipher
- rolling contact
- rolling demo
- Rolling Fork
- rolling introduction
- rolling programme
- rolling resistance
- rolling scissors
- rolling stock
- rolling stone, Rolling Stone
- rolling takeoff
Translations
moving by turning over repeatedly
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undulating of the landscape
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Verb
rolling
- present participle of roll
Synonyms
- rowling
Derived terms
- get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
- rolling in dough, rolling in money
Noun
rolling (plural rollings)
- The act by which something is rolled.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey