ROLLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rolling mean? 

• ROLLING (noun)
  The noun ROLLING has 3 senses:

1. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

2. the act of robbing a helpless person

3. propelling something on wheels

  Familiarity information: ROLLING used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROLLING (adjective)
  The adjective ROLLING has 1 sense:

1. uttered with a trill

  Familiarity information: ROLLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROLLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

peal; pealing; roll; rolling

Hypernyms ("rolling" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

roll (emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of robbing a helpless person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he was charged with rolling drunks in the park

Hypernyms ("rolling" is a kind of...):

robbery (larceny by threat of violence)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Propelling something on wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rolling; wheeling

Hypernyms ("rolling" is a kind of...):

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Derivation:

roll (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle)

• ROLLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttered with a trill

Synonyms:

rolled; rolling; trilled

Context example:

she used rolling r's as in Spanish

Similar:

pronounceable (capable of being uttered or pronounced)

 Context examples 

The yellow cog had now shot out from the narrow waters of the Solent, and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I please! cried Mr. Peggotty, rolling his head in an ecstasy at the idea; Lord, as if I should do anythink else!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why am I rolling all about the shop?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The next instant Holmes and the seaman were rolling on the ground together.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each rolling mountain whelmed them from view, and I would wait with sickening anxiety, fearing that they would never appear again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The glycoproteins with this modification include sulfated ligands for L-selectin and are involved in tethering and rolling of lymphocytes along high endothelial venules (HEV) of lymphoid tissues.

(Peripheral Lymph Node Addressin, NCI Thesaurus)

'Is that a dagger that I see before me? muttered Jo, rolling her eyes and clutching at the air, as she had seen a famous tragedian do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This he then took, and rolling it into thin strips, began to lay them into the crevices between the door and its setting in the tomb.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Bessie now returned; at the same moment the carriage was heard rolling up the gravel-walk.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)