role
Rolle (from Middle High German rulle , "small wheel") denotes:
- a small wheel (e.g. fixed castor or swivel castor )
- Roll (physics) , a grooved disc for deflecting a cord
- Roller (mining) , a connection between two routes through which material can be poured
- Role on pacemaker machines in the stalker race
- Spool (roll) , a cylindrical element for winding or spooling
- Training role , in cycling, the exercise machine hall roller
- Laundry roll , an apparatus for smoothing laundry
- Coin roll , a packaged stack of coins
- former name (before 1920) for a coil in electrical engineering
- Scroll , historical book form
- a paper roll for kitchen or toilet paper
- Roll (unit) , a counting measure
- a paint roller for painting
- Neck roll , sleeping aids
- a special type of sofa cushion
- short for roller clamp , a typical spherical clamp with a freely rolling ball inside
Movement sequences:
- Roll (gymnastics) , a gymnastics exercise in which the body is rotated around its own transverse or longitudinal axis
- Rolling (longitudinal axis) , a movement of the vehicle around the longitudinal axis in shipping and aviation
- a rollover element for roller coasters, see roller coaster elements # roles
- Roll (aerobatics) , maneuvers in aerobatics in which the aircraft rotates around its longitudinal axis
Rolle (from French rôle ) denotes:
- a directory originally written on parchment (eg. as aircraft register , Wappenrolle , Craftsmen )
- User role, in IT the authorizations and properties of the software user
- Social role , a term from sociology that describes the expectations and demands of social partners, often as a social hierarchy
- Role (seafaring) , defined distribution of tasks of the crew members of a ship in certain activities (e.g. maneuver rolls, emergency rolls)
- Role (theater) , the character to be embodied by an actor
- Role (workflow) , the process task to be processed by an employee in a team
- Semantic role , meaning function of a part of a sentence in relation to the whole sentence
Others:
- Rolle , a synonym for the white Vermentino grape variety
Rolle is the name of the following places:
- Rolle VD , municipality and historical city in the Swiss canton of Vaud
- Rolle district , former Swiss administrative unit, whose main town was Rolle
- Rolle (district) former Swiss administrative unit, the main location of which was Rolle
- Passo Rolle , alpine pass in South Tyrol
- Die Rolle (Nienburg) , a bathing lake near Nienburg / Weser (Lower Saxony)
- Godide , location in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, role until 2008
Rolle is the family name of the following people:
- Ahsha Rolle (* 1985), American tennis player
- Benjamin Rolle (* 1989), German poker player
- Bernd Euler-Rolle (* 1957), Austrian art historian and author
- Christian Friedrich Rolle (1681–1751), German organist and composer of the Baroque
- Christoph Rolle (1806–1870), Swiss politician
- Dietrich Rolle (1929–2008), German English scholar, literary scholar and university professor
- Elmar Pichler Rolle (* 1960), Italian politician
- Esther Rolle (1920–1998), American actress
- Friedrich Rolle (1827–1887), German paleontologist
- James Rolle (* 1964), American sprinter
- Johann Heinrich Rolle (1716–1785), German composer and music teacher
- Jürgen Rolle (* 1947), German politician (SPD) and social scientist
- Leo Rolle (* 1948), tennis player for the Caribbean and West Indies
- Marvin Rolle (* 1983), Bahamian tennis player
- Matthias Euler-Rolle (* 1977), Austrian radio presenter, media entrepreneur
- Michel Rolle (1652–1719), French mathematician
- Myron Rolle (* 1986), American football player
- Renate Rolle (* 1941), German prehistorian
See also:
Wiktionary: Role - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
