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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rolling
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Rolling Stones/Kylie Minogue etc fan
▪ Mike has been a lifelong Kylie Minogue fan.
rolling countryside (=with hills)
▪ a valley surrounded by rolling countryside
rolling pin
rolling stock
rolling/gentle hills (=hills with slopes that are not steep)
▪ He loved the green rolling hills of Dorset.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
countryside
▪ Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
▪ It is surrounded by beautiful gently rolling countryside, where the hillsides are often covered in vines and the valleys richly wooded.
▪ Only an hour's drive from the beautiful Kashubian Lake district, rich in forests and rolling countryside.
▪ Our route soon took us away from the stream to open rolling countryside.
▪ All around there are numerous pretty villages and many miles of gentle rolling countryside to explore.
▪ It was set on the roof at the front of the Hall, and the view over rolling countryside was magnificent.
▪ A climb up the Eildon Hills will present the energetic with stunning panoramic views of the surrounding gentle rolling countryside.
▪ The company's location is a wide area of open, rolling countryside, parched grassland dissected by open dry fissures.
hill
▪ Be warned though, the rolling hills and rugged terrain will test your mountain biking stamina to the extreme.
▪ It is situated in the Dartmoor National Park, amidst gentle rolling hills and woods where buzzards nest.
▪ All round the small station were green fields and rolling hills.
▪ The house was at the bottom of a valley near the reservoir, surrounded by rolling hills.
▪ Glacier walking is a piece of cake; well this bit was, with rolling hills of dazzling serenity.
▪ Vicchiomaggio is surrounded by the vineyards and rolling hills of the region.
mill
▪ There are three gas furnaces, one each for the steam hammers, drop stamps, and rolling mill.
▪ Large quantities of water are taken from the River Don for use in the power stations and the rolling mills.
▪ Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works?
pin
▪ It hung glittering like early morning cobwebs on her rolling pin.
▪ Holding a rolling pin and determined to have the last laugh.
▪ Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling.
▪ Last drops: use a rolling pin to squeeze the remains out of tubes of toothpaste.
▪ When cold, break bread pieces into a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin until fine.
▪ Roll out with a lightly floured rolling pin to a rectangle the same size as the tin.
▪ Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin, then carefully transfer to the tin.
▪ Everything was recovered except a rolling pin.
programme
▪ Mr Guest said United had a rolling programme of renewing its fleet and planned to buy 13 new buses this year.
▪ We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents.
▪ The first audits will take place this autumn as part of a rolling programme which will eventually take in all centres.
▪ The £750,000 required is being sought from special council budgets, so that a rolling programme of ferry replacement is not affected.
▪ They show the consistency that is to be expected from a ten-year rolling programme.
▪ In south Glasgow, two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde.
▪ There is a rolling programme of whole school inspections and detailed subject department inspections.
▪ In addition to these priority cases, we will develop a timetable for a rolling programme of Quality Audits for other centres.
settlement
▪ Dealings here are for seven day rolling settlement except in the case of new issues.
▪ There is currently no rolling settlements system and all trades are settled once every fortnight.
stock
▪ The West Coast main line was electrified in the 1960s and much rolling stock is 15 to 20 years old.
▪ New rolling stock, reopened lines and stations and more passengers testify to the extent of the exorcism.
▪ Double sets of wheels pull together like centipede rolling stock.
▪ During 1939, following the trolleybus conversions in North London, a number of rolling stock changes were made.
▪ But then another paradox is that he was successful in persuading the government to allow increased investment, especially in rolling stock.
▪ But engineers think that the kind of lightweight rolling stock increasingly used on the network will remain vulnerable to autumn leaves.
▪ Railways needed locomotives, rolling stock and signalling equipment, besides rails and bridges.
▪ They are to be used in West Yorkshire and the Birmingham and Manchester areas to replace ageing diesel and electric rolling stock.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rolling stone gathers no moss
be rolling in money/dough/cash/it
▪ Mel Levine is rolling in dough.
▪ After all, this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor; he must be rolling in money.
▪ Because the people who are rolling in it certainly are.
be rolling in the aisles
get (sth) rolling
▪ After developing the infrastructure and getting the ball rolling, the mine churned out great quantities of lead and silver.
▪ Celtic got the ball rolling with a goal from the impressive Nicholas after just 10 minutes.
▪ Early arrivals heard one of our own, the superb John Hurley, get the ball rolling in the upstairs bar.
▪ I got the process rolling by talking directly to every person in the wing.
▪ If you could get on to Basil, then we can get the ball rolling.
▪ Straightening your wheels puts them in the proper attitude to get them rolling again.
▪ They were Mo Taylor getting himself rolling consistently toward the basket and dropping in finger rolls and jump shots.
▪ To get the ball rolling, here a few for starters ... 1.
set/start/keep the ball rolling
▪ Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story.
▪ And laughter is infectious ... so a little bit of effort on the small screen could start the ball rolling.
▪ Does that make a difference, or did he and others just start the ball rolling?
▪ He will keep the ball rolling.
▪ Her words started the ball rolling.
▪ To start the ball rolling, the government was asked to contribute £1 million.
▪ Volume 2 deals with general idioms e.g. keep the ball rolling, the proof of the pudding.
▪ Wolves play a similar style, and at times one yearned for some one to set the ball rolling ... literally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He stood at the top of the hill, admiring the rolling landscape.
▪ The castle is set in rolling hills to the north of Orvieto.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new engineering base is being established at Churston where rolling stock will be maintained and serviced.
▪ Argyll leapt over the clattering boards and rolling stools.
▪ He ruled out huge rolling jackpots of up to £20 million, believing they attract crime.
▪ In south Glasgow, two secondaries are beginning a rolling programme which is aimed at thwarting a major shake-up by Strathclyde.
▪ In the moonlight Ion Manescu, sitting in the lead vehicle, peered through his snow goggles at the rolling wilderness.
▪ Little cameos come to mind: The glorious greens of the rolling countryside in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
▪ The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling.
▪ They show the consistency that is to be expected from a ten-year rolling programme.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rolling

Rolling \Roll"ing\, a.

  1. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.

  2. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.

  3. Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. [U.S.] Rolling bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. Rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship. --J. Bourne. Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand. Rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact. Rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc. Rolling press.

    1. A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers.

    2. A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.

      Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.

      Rolling tackle (Naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily.
      --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Rolling

Roll \Roll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rolling.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. Control, Roll, n., Rotary.]

  1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

  2. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

  3. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

  4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

    The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe.
    --J. A. Symonds.

  5. To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

    Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies.
    --Tennyson.

  6. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

  7. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

  8. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

  9. (Geom.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

  10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

    Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright.
    --Chaucer.

    To roll one's self, to wallow.

    To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.

    To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rolling

14c., past participle adjective from roll (v.). Of prairie land from 1819. From mid-15c. as a verbal noun. Rolling pin is recorded from late 15c. Rolling paper for cigarettes, etc., is from 1969. Rolling stock "wheeled vehicles on a railroad" (locomotives, carriages, etc.) is from 1853.\nThe rollyng stone neuer gatherth mosse. [John Heywood, "A dialogue conteinying the nomber in effect of all the proverbes in the Englishe tongue," 1546]

Wiktionary
rolling

n. The act by which something is rolled. vb. 1 (present participle of roll English) 2 Staggered in time and space; used with blackout, brownout, introduction.

WordNet
rolling
  1. adj. characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative]

  2. uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish" [syn: rolled, trilled]

  3. moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids" [syn: billowing, tumbling]

rolling
  1. n. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn: peal, pealing, roll]

  2. the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"

  3. propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Rolling (film)

Rolling is a 2007 independent drama film about a diverse group of characters who are linked by the drug MDMA ("ecstasy"). The faux documentary takes a tough yet entertaining realistic look at how this drug affects relationships and responsibilities. The film had its world premiere at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival on February 11, 2007. It is the directorial feature debut of Billy Samoa Saleebey.

Rolling (finance)

Rolling a contract is an investment concept meaning trading out of a standard contract and then buying the contract with next longest maturity, so as to maintain a position with constant maturity.

Rolling

Rolling is a type of motion that combines rotation (commonly, of an axially symmetric object) and translation of that object with respect to a surface (either one or the other moves), such that, if ideal conditions exist, the two are in contact with each other without sliding.

Rolling where there is no sliding is referred to as pure rolling. By definition, there is no sliding when the instantaneous velocity of the rolling object in all the points in which it contacts the surface is the same as that of the surface; in particular, for a reference plane in which the rolling surface is at rest, the instantaneous velocity of the point of contact of the rolling object is zero.

In practice, due to small deformations near the contact area, some sliding and energy dissipation occurs. Nevertheless, the resulting rolling resistance is much lower than sliding friction, and thus, rolling objects, typically require much less energy to be moved than sliding ones. As a result, such objects will more easily move, if they experience a force with a component along the surface, for instance gravity on a tilted surface, wind, pushing, pulling, or torque from an engine. Unlike most axially symmetrical objects, the rolling motion of a cone is such that while rolling on a flat surface, its center of gravity performs a circular motion, rather than linear motion. Rolling objects are not necessarily axially-symmetrical. Two well known non-axially-symmetrical rollers are the Reuleaux triangle and the Meissner bodies. The oloid and the sphericon are members of a special family of developable rollers that develop their entire surface when rolling down a flat plane. Objects with corners, such as dice, roll by successive rotations about the edge or corner which is in contact with the surface.

Rolling (disambiguation)

Rolling is to move forward by causing to rotate over a surface.

Rolling may also refer to:

  • Rolling (finance), trading contracts to maintain a given maturity
  • Rolling (metalworking), a fabricating process
  • Rolling (physiology), an aspect of Leukocyte extravasation in which white blood cells roll along a vessel wall
  • "Rolling", the first track of Soul Coughing's third album, El Oso
  • Rolling (video game), an inline skating video game
  • Rolling (film), a 2007 faux documentary
  • Rolling, Bous, Luxembourg
  • Rolling, Wisconsin, USA
  • Being intoxicated on the drug MDMA
  • "Rolling" is used among practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu to describe sparring.
  • "Rolling", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
  • Rolling (television), a problem with early TV sets
Rolling (metalworking)

In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform. The concept is similar to the rolling of dough. Rolling is classified according to the temperature of the metal rolled. If the temperature of the metal is above its recrystallization temperature, then the process is known as hot rolling. If the temperature of the metal is below its recrystallization temperature, the process is known as cold rolling. In terms of usage, hot rolling processes more tonnage than any other manufacturing process, and cold rolling processes the most tonnage out of all cold working processes. Roll stands holding pairs of rolls are grouped together into rolling mills that can quickly process metal, typically steel, into products such as structural steel ( I-beams, angle stock, channel stock, and so on), bar stock, and rails. Most steel mills have rolling mill divisions that convert the semi-finished casting products into finished products.

There are many types of rolling processes, including ring rolling, roll bending, roll forming, profile rolling, and controlled rolling.

Rolling (video game)

Rolling is an extreme sports video game released in 2003 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Subsequent Game Boy Advance and Gamecube versions were cancelled due to a declining interest in extreme sports titles. To date, it is one of the few other games depicting aggressive inline skating apart from Aggressive Inline and the Jet Set Radio series. It was originally developed by the now defunct Rage Software, who were aiming to create a more authentic recreation of the sport (the box art claims the game features 250 tricks), unlike Aggressive Inline which focused on exaggerated, fantasy-themed levels and high scoring, fairly unrealistic tricks.

Players can choose to skate as one of the twenty available skaters (excluding the twenty first, and hidden, skater) and work their way through a progressively difficult "career mode" featuring a total of fourteen levels, gaining reputation, sponsorship deals, as well as unlocking new 'tricks' and videos of the pro skaters.

Usage examples of "rolling".

Jessy agreed absently while her gaze took in the broad expanse of plains before them, rugged and rolling into forever.

Lead truck following Aby, rolling down to the fatal turn, where the woods came near the road.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

In front of the advancing British there lay a rolling hill, topped by a further one.

It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less.

Across the road, beyond the shuttered se afront kiosks, the sky was a dirty grey mass of rolling clouds, imitating the swell and froth of the sea.

He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.

After that, the airman, with a slightly rolling gait, quickly descended the stairs and without looking back strode down the asphalted embankment past the long hospital building.

In an interview with Rolling Stone in January 1970, four months after he had left the group, John still worded his interviews to give the impression that the group still existed: RITCHIE YORKE: When you are about to record a new Beatles album, do you feel very excited about it?

He told Rolling Stone: It was always understood that the album would be like nothing the Beatles had done before.

If you camp on this prominence, in the alpenglow the distant range looks like the side of a different world, rolling slowly up into the sky.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

On very stormy days the entire apse seemed to awake and to grumble under the noise of the rain as it beat against the leaden tiles of the roof, running off by the gutters of the cornices and rolling from story to story with the clamour of an overflowing torrent.

After panting awhile, he arose again and finished by rolling the stone end-over-end toward its destination.

A moment later I heard a noise like ten dog-fights rolled into one, and rushing out I found my friend rolling on the ground with his arms round the workman who was helping to stack my artesian tubing.