rolling

Plural: rollings

Noun

• The act of moving by turning over and over, or shaping with a roller.
• a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
• the act of robbing a helpless person
  • "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"
• propelling something on wheels
• The act by which something is rolled.
• A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.

Verb

• move by turning over or rotating
• move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
• occur in soft rounded shapes
• flatten or spread with a roller
• emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
  • "rolling drums"
• arrange or or coil around
• begin operating or running
  • "The cameras were rolling"
  • "The presses are already rolling"
• shape by rolling
• execute a roll, in tumbling
• sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
• move, rock, or sway from side to side
• cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
• pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
• boil vigorously
• take the shape of a roll or cylinder
• show certain properties when being rolled
• present participle and gerund of roll

Adjective Satellite

• uttered with a trill
  • "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"

Adj

• Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
• Staggered in time and space.
• Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
• Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
• Making a continuous sound.
• Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
• having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.

Examples

• a 90-day rolling business plan
• on a rolling basis
• rolling blackouts or brownouts
• The ROLLING of the dice for first turn felt like the only non-strategic part of Scrabble.

Synonyms

cast, drift, flap, hustle, peal, pealing, pluck, ramble, range, revolve, roam, roll, roll out, roll up, rolled, rove, seethe, stray, swan, tramp, trilled, turn over, twine, undulate, vagabond, wander, wave, wheel, wheeling, wind, wrap, chequerwise, drunk, flyheccing, rowling, spaced out, spinning, tumbling

Antonyms

unwind

Related Words

hypertapping, jitterclicking

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