Rolling vs Turning - What's the difference?
rolling | turning |
Staggered in time and space; used with blackout, brownout, introduction.
The act by which something is rolled.
* 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
(British) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
* Take the second turning on the left.
(senseid)The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
The act of turning.
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(plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
* The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
* The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.
* He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
As verbs the difference between rolling and turning
is that rolling is present participle of lang=en while turning is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between rolling and turning
is that rolling is the act by which something is rolled while turning is a turn or deviation from a straight course.rolling
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* rowlingDerived terms
* rolling in dough, rolling in money * rolling introduction * rolling stockNoun
(en noun)- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
turning
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}
