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Roebling
- noun - United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)
Roneoing
- verb - make copies on a Roneograph
Roosting
- verb - settle down or stay, as if on a roost
- sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree"
Rootling
- verb - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"
Rosining
- verb - rub rosin onto; "rosin the violin bow"
Rotating
- verb - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
- exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
- perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
- plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
- turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
- turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
Roughing
- verb - prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Rounding
- verb - (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
- attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
- express as a round number; "round off the amount"
- make round; "round the edges"
- pronounce with rounded lips
- wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend"
Sobering
- verb - become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"
- become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"
- cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"
- tending to make sober or more serious; "the news had a sobering effect"
Softling
- - A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.