ROLLINGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
• 韻: -əʊlɪŋ
• Homophone: Rowling

形容詞

rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)

1. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
2. Staggered in time and space.

   on a rolling basis

   a 90-day rolling business plan

   rolling blackouts or brownouts

3. Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
   • 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 53:

     The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.

4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

     From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

   • 2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.

     I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca

5. Making a continuous sound.
6. (slang) Short for rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
   • 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers:

     Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.

7. (of an acne scar) having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.

   Hypernym: atrophic scar

   Coordinate terms: boxcar scar, icepick scar

同意語

• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
• (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
• (undulating of the landscape):

派生語

動詞

rolling

1. present participle and gerund of roll

同意語

• rowling

派生語

• get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
• rolling in dough, rolling in money

名詞

rolling (plural rollings)

1. The act by which something is rolled.
   • 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:

     Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

2. (video games, NES Tetris) 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.

   Synonym: flyheccing

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