roll-on vessel

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• Roll-on/roll-off — (RORO or ro ro) ships are ferries designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars. This is in contrast to lo lo (lift on lift off) vessels which use a crane to load and unload cargo.RORO …   Wikipedia

• Roll — Roll, n. [F. r[^o]le a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus ? little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See {Roll}, v., and cf. {R[^o]le}, {Rouleau}, {Roulette}.] 1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Roll call — Roll Roll, n. [F. r[^o]le a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus ? little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See {Roll}, v., and cf. {R[^o]le}, {Rouleau}, {Roulette}.] 1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• roll-on roll-off — ˌroll on ˈroll off abbreviation RORO adjective roll on roll off ferry/​ship/​vessel etc TRANSPORT a ship that vehicles can drive straight on and off …   Financial and business terms

• Roll — The word roll has these meanings:*Roll (food) * A thin flexible solid wound around a centre. ** Something wrapped around a tube, e.g. toilet roll. ** Paper strips wrapped around a thin quilling tool, e.g. quilling. ** A bank roll, a paper holder… …   Wikipedia

• roll — rollable, adj. /rohl/, v.i. 1. to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel. 2. to move or be moved on wheels, as a vehicle or its occupants. 3. to flow or advance in a stream or with an undulating motion,… …   Universalium

• roll — [[t]roʊl[/t]] v. i. 1) to move along a surface by turning over and over 2) to move or be moved on wheels 3) to flow or advance with an undulating motion, as waves 4) to extend in undulations, as land 5) to elapse, as time 6) to move as in a cycle …   From formal English to slang

• roll — v 1. revolve, rotate, bowl, trundle, troll, tumble, somersault, somerset, turn, go around; (all of a vessel) pitch, lurch, haw, swing, toss, rock, incline, sway, lean; spin, gyrate, whirl, pivot, pirouette, wheel, reel, swirl, twirl, twiddle. 2.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• roll-on roll-off — noun A form of marine vessel which allows wheeled vehicles to be driven on and off. Syn: ro ro, ro/ro …   Wiktionary

• roll-on roll-off — adjective Brit. denoting a ferry or other vessel in which vehicles are driven directly on at the start of the voyage and driven off at the end of it …   English new terms dictionary

• roll — 1. A mass or structure in the shape of a r.. 2. The process by which a round entity is moved by a pressure gradient, as a leukocyte moves along a blood vessel wall. iliac r. a sausage shaped, often painful, nonfluctuating …   Medical dictionary