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noun
- an inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline
- a mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an airliner at an airport
- an American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion
- (Appalachia) a promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person
verb
- to behave violently; to rage
- to stand in a rampant position
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noun
- an animal that urinate backwards - such as the camel or raccoon.
adjective
- that urinates backwards
- (slang) cowardly
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noun - A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
- The cry of the lion.
- The deep cry of the bull.
- The sound of a motorbike or a similar engine.
- A show of strength or character.
verb
- To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
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verb
- Present participle of to roar.
adjective
- very, Very; intensively; extremely.
- Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
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noun
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- A mischievous scamp.
- A vagrant.
- Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- An entity set apart from the normal order, which acts in an independent manner. This can apply to individuals, states, or other entities.
adjective
- (context, of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
- (context, by extension) large, Large, destructive and unpredictable.
- 2004: w: Chris Wallace (journalist), Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- :In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
- operate, Operating outside of normal controls.
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noun
- The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- the roll of a ball
- the roll of waves
- That which rolls; a roller
- Specifically, a heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- Specifically, one of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
- That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Specifically, a document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
- Specifically, a quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
- Specifically, A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
- (nautical) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- the roll of cannon
- the roll of thunder
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rí´le.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- Quotations
- 1882: Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 594.
- the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
- the roll of an aircraft
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- Make your roll.
- Whoever gets the highest moves first.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
verb
- (ergative) 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.
- roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel
- To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- roll a sheet of paper
- roll clay or putty into a ball''
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up
- roll up a parcel
- (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- a river rolls its waters to the ocean
- (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out.
- roll forth someone's praises
- roll out sentences
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- roll a field
- roll paste
- roll steel rails
- (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (geometry) 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 such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- (US slang) A manner of behaving or a way of doing certain things; a general disposition toward a situation.
- I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over, I don't like that.
- 2006, Times Herald-Record, Tuesday, November 21, by Chris McKenna?. At http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321.
- :"This is how we in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
- (transitive or intransitive) To throw dice.
- (transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- If you doubles, you get an extra turn.
- With two dice, you're more likely to seven than ten.
- To turn over and over.
- The child rolled on the floor.
- To tumble in gymnastics.
- (nautical) when a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
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noun
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- source, Source.
- The love of money is the of all evil
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specify, specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- The cube of 27 is 3.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- Multiply by 2.
- (analysis) A zero (of a function).
- (context, graphtheory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (italbrac, philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure.
- (computing) The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
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verb
- To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil, to root out.
- To cheer to show support for a sports team, etc.
- 1908, w:Jack Norworth, Jack Norworth, w:Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- : Let me , , for the home team,
- (italbrac, Australian coarse slang) To have sexual intercourse.
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