Roller vs Wheel - What's the difference?
roller | wheel |
(lb) Anything that rolls.
#Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
#A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller".
#(lb) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
#A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
#An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
#One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
#A roller towel.
#A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
#Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves.
#Any of the small ground snakes of the family .
A long wide bandage used in surgery.
A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend?; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits?; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) A bird.
#A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler).
#Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
(also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce.
The police (old blues slang).
A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
*2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 69:
*:I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller . The names of the writers went on for ever.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
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# (label) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
# A spinning wheel.
# A potter's wheel.
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#* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
# (heraldiccharge) This device used as a heraldic charge, usually with six spokes.
A wheel-like device used as an instrument of torture or punishment.
(label) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(label) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
(label) Wheel rim.
A round portion of cheese.
A Catherine wheel firework.
(label) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(intransitive, or, transitive) To roll along as on wheels.
To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
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To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
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* Milton
As nouns the difference between roller and wheel
is that roller is Anything that rolls.wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.As a proper noun Roller
is a Rolls-Royce car.As a verb wheel is
to roll along as on wheels.roller
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* light roller * heavy roller * hair roller * high roller * paint roller * road roller * roller bearing * roller bed * roller blade, rollerblade * roller coaster * roller shutter * roller skate * steam roller, steamrollerAnagrams
* English agent nouns ----wheel
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels .
- Turn, turn, my wheel ! This earthen jar / A touch can make, a touch can mar.
- (Milton)
- According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves.
- [He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel .
Synonyms
* (instrument of torture) breaking wheel * (wheel rim) rimDerived terms
* balance wheel * behind the wheel * big wheel * breaking wheel * break on the wheel * buffing wheel * cartwheel * car wheel * Catherine wheel * click wheel * cog wheel, cogwheel * color wheel, colour wheel * daisy wheel * disk wheel * driving wheel * eighteen-wheeler * escape wheel * Ferris wheel * fifth wheel * flywheel * foundling wheel * four-wheel * four-wheel drive * freewheel * freewheeling * front-wheel drive * gear wheel, gearwheel * Geneva wheel * grease the wheels * hell on wheels * idle wheel * kick wheel * lantern wheel * leading wheel * mag wheel * meals on wheels * mill wheel * motorcycle wheel * paddle wheel * pinwheel * planet wheel * potter's wheel * prayer wheel * print wheel * ratchet wheel * reinvent the wheel * roulette wheel * scoop wheel, scoopwheel * skateboard wheel * spinning wheel * spin one's wheels * sprocket wheel * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * steel wheel * steering wheel * stern-wheeler * take the wheel * the wheel * three-wheeler * tide wheel * trailing wheel * training wheels * two-wheeler * wagon wheel * water wheel * wheel and axle * wheelbarrow * wheelbase * wheel breadth * wheelchair * wheel clamp * wheeled * wheelhouse * wheelie * wheelie bin * the wheels fell off * wheel of Fortune * wheel of life * wheel rim * wheels * wheelspin * wheel within a wheel * wheelwright * wheely * worm wheelSee also
* (wikipedia "wheel")References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- Wheel that trolley over here, would you?
- The vulture wheeled above us.
- The beetle wheels her droning flight.
- Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled / Her motions, as the great first mover's hand / First wheeled their course.