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Functioning and Rolling

functioning

noun

  • Process or manner of functioning or operating.
    • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

verb

  • Perform as expected when applied.
    • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • Serve a purpose, role, or function.
    • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
    • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"

adjective

  • Performing or able to perform its regular function.
    • usage: "a functioning flashlight"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
rolling

noun

  • A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells.
  • The act of robbing a helpless person.
    • usage: "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"
  • Propelling something on wheels.

verb

  • Move by turning over or rotating.
    • usage: "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
  • Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.
    • usage: "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
  • Occur in soft rounded shapes.
    • usage: "The hills rolled past"
  • Flatten or spread with a roller.
    • usage: "roll out the paper"
  • Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.
    • usage: "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
  • Arrange or or coil around.
    • usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • Begin operating or running.
    • usage: "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
  • Shape by rolling.
    • usage: "roll a cigarette"
  • Execute a roll, in tumbling.
    • usage: "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
  • 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.
    • usage: "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  • Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
    • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
    • usage: "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
  • Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.
    • usage: "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
  • Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
    • usage: "She rolls her r's"
  • Boil vigorously.
    • usage: "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"
  • Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.
    • usage: "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
  • Show certain properties when being rolled.
    • usage: "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

adjective

  • Uttered with a trill.
    • usage: "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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