(a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
(a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
(a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(4) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
(5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(6) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
(8) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(9) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
(10) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
(11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(12) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(13) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
(14) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(15) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(16) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
(17) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(18) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(19) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(20) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
Swath
Definition:
(v. t.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
(v. t.) The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.
(v. t.) A band or fillet; a swathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(3) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(4) Israel's control of a huge swath of the West Bank is costing the Palestinian economy $3.4bn (£2.1bn) a year, or 35% of its GDP, according to a report from the World Bank .
(5) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(6) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(7) Photograph: Reuters Isis controls large swaths of north-east Syria including its stronghold of Raqqa and a number of lucrative gas and oil fields in the east.
(8) Mexican armed forces will take over security in a large swath of a western state where shootouts between vigilante groups and drug traffickers erupted over the weekend, a top official has announced.
(9) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(10) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(11) Parts of England and Wales have been hit by flooding in recent weeks after unusually wet weather followed two dry winters in a row that had left swaths of England in drought.
(12) Swaths of our working population are now welfare dependent.
(13) Who can deny that the west has served as a recruiting sergeant for Islamic extremism, that it effectively helped hand large swathes of Iraq and Libya over to such elements?
(14) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(15) Isis militants control large swathes of territory in both countries.
(16) But the security barriers Israel has built since 2000 have divided what was a fairly contiguous swath of territory into what El-Ad called “bubbles”: areas separated by gates, walled highways leading to Israeli settlements, and checkpoints.
(17) Tea swathed in frothed milk sweetened to within an inch of its long, UHT life.
(18) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
(19) The media – and large swaths of the public – like absolutes such as this (no fat!
(20) A Greenpeace spokesperson : "Asia Pulp and Paper has been responsible for the destruction of vast swaths of Indonesia's rainforests, including areas of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.