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role

noun
/ɹəʊl/UK/ɹoʊl/CA/ɹəʉl/

Etymology

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.

  1. derived from rotulus
  2. derived from role
  3. derived from rolle
  4. borrowed from rôle

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

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

  3. The function or position of something.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or…

      Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges

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

    2. The function of a word in a phrase.

    3. In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for…

      In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

    4. An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at role. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at role. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at role

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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