steamrollernoun(VEHICLE)

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rollernoun (WAVE)

[ C ]
a large, long wave on the sea卷浪;长涌

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roller | American Dictionary

roller
noun[ C ]
us/ˈroʊ·lər/

rollernoun[C] (ROUNDED SHAPE)

a cylinder used for shaping something, or for spreading something over a surface:
hair rollers
a paint roller

rollernoun[C] (THING THAT MOVES)

a cylinder or wheel that turns over and over in order to move something along

Examples of roller

roller
Each time the roller passed over the flax stem some of the shive separated from the fibre.
These eliminated the die plates entirely and used rollers or compressing cylinders to form the stream of clay.
Most of the performances of the structure now depend on the sphere diameter and no longer on the roller diameter.
Similarly, the contact between a toner particle and the imaging roller is treated as an ideal electric resistance.
For the wounded actor, these ups and downs have the quality of a diabolical roller-coaster: highs of inflated grandiosity followed by lows of deep depression.
A small roller pump is placed on the inlet aspect of the ultrafilter to increase the blood flow to approximately 100 to 300 ml/min.
There was a tendency for borderline tubers to pass along the rollers slightly too far and fall into the size above the correct category.
A more detailed simulation of the press would require the state of the water-loaded felt as it approaches the roller to be properly specified.
First, the detailed topology of the double rollers is investigated and their sense of rotation and relation to the turbulent/non-turbulent interface established.
Patients can be traumatized by roller-coaster rides where hopes are built and crushed contemporaneously.
Its roller-bed slipway was built over the summer of 1925-26, and most of the other facilities were established in 1927.
Another solution consists in using spherical wheels in order to overcome the limitations inherent to the small size of the rollers.
The direction of relative motion of the shafts is reversed when the roller is moved past the center of the disk.
Figure 9 shows the pressure for the case i = 0.5, = 1.0 and = 0, so that the bottom roller is completely permeable.
The speed is changed depending on the position of the adjustable roller.
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