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rulla — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bobbin noun A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  • bolt noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  • cylinder noun A solid or hollow object with straight parallel sides and a circular cross-section, like a tube or a can.
  • reel noun A cylindrical device on which thread, film, cable, or fishing line is wound.
  • roll verb To move by turning over and over on a surface.
  • roller noun Any cylindrical device that turns, used to apply pressure, flatten, or move something.
  • spool noun A cylinder that thread, wire, film, or cable is wound around.
  • wrap verb To cover something completely by folding material around it.

Senses

rulla is used for these senses in English:

  • bobbin A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  • bolt A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  • bread roll A miniature round loaf of bread, often accompanying a meal.
  • cylinder A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
  • cylinder The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • reel (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
  • roll That which is rolled up.
  • roll One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

bobbin — full definition

  1. noun A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. noun In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. noun The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. noun A fine cord or narrow braid.

bolt — full definition

  1. noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  2. noun A sliding bar used to lock a door.
  3. noun A flash of lightning.
  4. verb To run away suddenly, or move very fast.
  5. verb To fasten something with a bolt, or to lock a door with a bolt.

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