role en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /roːl/ (South-Asia)
- [ɹəʉɫ] (Australia)
- /ɹəʊl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- audio Connecticut
- [ɹɐʉɫ] (Australia) some speakers
- [ɹɐʉɫ] (New-Zealand)
- /ɹɐʉl/ (New-Zealand)
- [ɹəʊɫ] (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɹəʉl/ (Australia)
- /ɾol/ (Scotland)
- /ɾoːl/ (Wales) without the toe–tow merger
- (Canada) audio
- [ɹoʊɫ] (Canada, General-American)
- (California, Southern) audio
- rōl
- /ɹoʊl/ (Canada, General-American) toe-tow merger
- /ɹol/ (Canada, General-American, dialectal)
Etymology
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.
Meanings
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A character or part played by a performer or actor.
My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
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The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
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The function or position of something.
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
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Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
I'm setting up a few roles that all have the same permissions but different cosmetics. When I go to add a new role, the permissions are all turned off by default. Is there a way to have them default to the @everyone permissions?
2024 April 24, leatherett3, “Do I have to do the permissions from scratch with every role?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2024, r/discordapp:As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1:The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
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The function of a word in a phrase.
Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2:
- (qualifier:object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| roles | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| rôle | alternative, dated | lexicographic |
Deriveds
multirole · role playing game · role-playing video game · role model · role-playing game · role-playing · gender-role · role-play · role player · role-oriented language · thematic role · title role · role-player · roled · play a role · gender role · pants role · bit role · role conflict · roleless · massively multiplayer online role-playing game · roleplay · role reversal · roleplayer · role activity diagram · trouser role · breeches role · role-oriented · role-based · rerole · theta role
Descendants
Hyponyms
Synonyms
Translations (157)
ka როლი (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · pl funkcja ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · ko 직무 (the function or position of something) · mk улога (character or part) · id tugas (the function or position of something) · uz rol (character or part) · gl papel (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · de Rolle (the function or position of something) · sh ȕloga (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · fi rooli (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · sh у̏лога (the function or position of something) · sh róla (character or part) · sh ро́ла (character or part) · gl función (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · sv roll (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · id peranan (character or part) · sh у̏лога (character or part) · ca rol (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · id peranan (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · sv roll (the function or position of something) · sh ȕloga (the function or position of something) · tt роль (character or part) · my အခန်း (character or part) · fi virka (the function or position of something) · sq rol (character or part) · gl papel (character or part) · fr rôle (character or part) · tr rol (the function or position of something) · id peran (the function or position of something) · ta பங்கு (character or part) · ko 역 (the function or position of something) · pt papel (character or part) · yue 角色 (character or part) · tg рол (character or part) · et roll (character or part) · fi osa (the function or position of something) · vi vai (character or part) · mn үүрэг (character or part) · cmn 任務 /任务 (the function or position of something) · ca paper (character or part) · lt rolė (character or part) · pl rola (the function or position of something) · gl rol (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · ru до́лжность (the function or position of something) · tr işlev (the function or position of something) · uk роль (character or part) · sh у̏лога (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · tr görev (the function or position of something) · hi भूमिका (character or part) · el ρόλος (character or part) · lo ບົດບາດ (character or part) · sh ȕloga (character or part) · kk рөл ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · hy պաշտոն (the function or position of something) · pt papel ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · km តួ (character or part) · nb rolle (character or part) · ja 役割 (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · el ρόλος (the function or position of something) · hi भूमिका (the function or position of something) · fi asema (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · ps رول (character or part) · lv loma (character or part) · pt função ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · nb rolle (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · te పాత్ర (character or part) · da rolle (character or part) · ga ról (character or part) · ja 役柄 (character or part) · az rol (character or part) · fi osa (character or part) · vi vai trò (character or part) · es rol (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · th บทบาท (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · yi ראָלע (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · es papel (character or part) · ms peranan (character or part) · fa-ira رُل (character or part) · ja 役 (character or part) · ga ról (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · ky роль (character or part) · he תַּפְקִיד (character or part) · be ро́ля (character or part) · el ρόλος (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · nb rolle (the function or position of something) · ko 역 (character or part) · ps نقش (character or part) · it ruolo (character or part) · ko 역할 (character or part) · sl vloga (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · sk rola (character or part) · de Rolle (character or part) · el ρόλος ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · es papel (the function or position of something) · ga ról (the function or position of something) · pl rola (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · nl rol (character or part) · mk ролја (character or part) · lt vaidmuo (character or part) · cmn 角色 (character or part) · pt função (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · fa-ira نَقْش (character or part) · tr rol (character or part) · ru роль (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · kmr dewr (character or part) · ka ფუნქცია (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · pt papel (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · kk рөл (character or part) · gl función ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · yi ראָלע (the function or position of something) · ca paper (the function or position of something) · it ruolo (the function or position of something) · pt função (the function or position of something) · hu szerep (character or part) · fr rôle (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · yi ראָלע (character or part) · ca funció ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · lb Roll (character or part) · sl vloga (character or part) · pl funkcja (the function or position of something) · ug رول (character or part) · pl rola ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · sv roll (character or part) · ur کِرْدار (character or part) · hy դեր (character or part) · cs role (character or part) · sl vloga (the function or position of something) · pt papel (the function or position of something) · ja 役割 (the function or position of something) · fr fonction ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · mt rwol (character or part) · th บทบาท (character or part) · sv funktion ((grammar) the function of a word in a phrase) · fi rooli (character or part) · cmn 角 (character or part) · fi rooli (the function or position of something) · is hlutverk (character or part) · bn ভূমিকা (character or part) · pl pozycja (the function or position of something) · tk rol (character or part) · de Rolle (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · hi भूमिका (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · hy դեր (the expected behavior of an individual in a society) · oc ròtle (the function or position of something) · de Funktion (the function or position of something) · de Aufgabe (the function or position of something) · pl rola (character or part) · ar دَوْر (character or part) · hy դեր (the function or position of something) · fr rôle (the function or position of something) · bg ро́ля (character or part) · yue 角 (character or part) · ckb دەور (character or part) · tg нақш (character or part) · ru роль (character or part) · ro rol (character or part) · ka როლი (character or part)