Meaning of role | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dated spelling of role.
   often, poetic
2. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
3. Function, role.
4. An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
   historical
5. List or catalogue.
6. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
7. Document of the captain of a ship in which they appear the names of the crewmen.
8. The function or position of something.
9. Roll.
10. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
11. The function of a word in a phrase.
12. In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

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Examples

“We have referred to the Bull many times, both in his astronomical aspect as pioneer of the Spring-Sun, and in his more direct rôle as plougher of the fields[.]”

“Somehow, I was not quite as elated as I might have been. I remembered that Cynthia had begun her confidences in much the same way. Besides, a father confessor should be elderly, it is not at all the rôle for a young man.”

“Finally the Negro had played a peculiar spiritual rôle in America as a sort of living, breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, hope and tolerance of our religion.”

“2006, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Phonological change in Optimality Theory, in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics [2nd edn., vol. 9], 497–505. Oxford: Elsevier. Thus, diachronic reductionists follow Ohala in emphasizing the rôle of the parser in phonologization and downplaying the contribution of higher principles of grammatical organization.”

“As the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations wind down, it may be well to reflect on an aspect of public choice theory which supports constitutional monarchy — principally its rôle as a brake upon self-aggrandising politicians.”

“2016, Pavel Iosad, Rule scattering and vowel length in Northern Romance, in Papers in Historical Phonology, volume 1, 218–237. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. Nevertheless, it can be argued that Loporcaro's (2015) rejection of any rôle for phonological computation in establishing the observed distribution of vowel length in Northern Romance goes too far in the other direction.”

“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.”

“The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.”

“Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.”

“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.”

“The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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