Word Finder - role

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A character or part played by a performer or actor.

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Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.

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The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.

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

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The function or position of something.

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

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Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes

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

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(grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.

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

The Giddon's had filled the role of family only to an extent.

Everyone here has a role to support our little community.

She'd thought her role more spiritual or symbolic.

The last role is played.

The World Wide Web will play an enormous role in ending war, on several levels.

Soon after he took up a role of his own, having visions and a gift of prophecy.

He was absorbed in the role he had created for himself.

She swallowed hard, uncomfortable with playing the role of judge and jury.

How did you know it could complicate the role of Death?

Of all the brothers, he'd always been the one to begrudge Andre's role as their leader.

As the elder brother, he took his role seriously, even if it was the only thing he put any effort into.

Among the Greeks and Romans likewise it was the liver that continued throughout all periods to play the chief role in divination through the sacrificial animal.

To be in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make use of whatever interest he had to offer.

Now let's look at the role of government, both philosophically and historically, which also changes over time.

The political divisions of Africa Minor have changed many times, for, as the country has no natural centre, many towns have aspired to play the role of capital.

Hilaire too was deeply touching as des Grieux; his good looks and innate dignity are perfect for the role.

Some believe this is the beginning and end of the role of government.

He gets a little caught up in the role of head of the household, and becomes a parental figure as well.

If the Others wanted to find a way to keep the Grey God from assuming his role as the Gatekeeper between immortal and mortal worlds, they'd likely find her a good target.

From this point a large area of open water was seen which was believed to be an "open Polar Sea," a chimera which played an important and delusive role in subsequent explorations.

The actual role of intermediary was played by the pious queen Hutaosa.

In fact it played a more conspicuous role in the small boroughs than in the large ones.

His was essentially a mediating role.

For several centuries Vienna filled an important role as the most advanced bulwark of Western civilization and Christianity against the Turks, for during the whole of the middle ages Hungary practically retained its Asiatic character.

The new fortress, built in 1763, although small, was formidable, and played a great role during the Hungarian struggle for independence in 1849.

They would also have conceded the pope the right to play the role of a secular ruler in his own lands, as did the German bishops, and to dispose of such fiefs as reverted to him.

Barely a decade earlier, Cleveland, also a Democrat, had said essentially, "Look, the government shouldn't be helping the poor Texans; that's the role of charity."

The government operating in its correct role is instrumental to civilization.

Before this date the Jews had been learning the rOle they afterwards filled, that of the chief promoters of international commerce.

This Smyrnan pretender not only proclaimed himself Messiah (c. 1650) but he was accepted in that role by vast numbers of his brethren.

By this campaign, which exposed him to the worst retaliation of the English, he inaugurated his role of "procurator and defender of the king of France."

In the third Duma, elected on a restricted franchise, the Octobrists assumed the leading role.

In the continuations added at various times to Chretien's unfinished work the role assigned to Lancelot is equally modest.

Lancelot, already popular hero of a tale in which an adventure parallel to that of the Charrette figured prominently, was pressed into the service, Modred, Guenevere's earlier lover, being too unsympathetic a character; moreover, Modred was required for the final role of traitor.

Yet the role of Desmoulins during the Convention was of but secondary importance.

As regards domestic legislation, the President, in general, assumed the role of moderator.

The President, however, frequently played an active role in the conferences necessary to secure general agreement, as on Aug.

Nurhachu played with skill and daring the role which had been played by Jenghiz Khan more than three centuries before in Mongolia.

Under the rule of their sultans, who assumed the role of mayors of the palace in Bagdad about the middle of the 11th century, they pushed westwards towards the caliphate of Egypt and the East Roman empire.

It was indeed in the spirit of a king of Sicily, and not in the spirit - though it was in the role - of a king of Jerusalem, that Frederick had acted.

In so far the role of the prefect is essentially political; he guarantees the direct and legal action of the government in his department.

The latter at once assumed the role of advanced guard cavalry and was ordered to observe the enemy at Friedland, Ney following in close support.

On the r4th (the anniversary of Marengo) Lannes carried out his role of fighting advanced guard or screen, the emperor's main body gradually came up, and the battle of Friedland (q.v.), notable chiefly for the first display of the new artillery tactics of the French, ended with a general attack about 5 P.M.

Mr. Bryce, already favourably regarded in America as the author of a classical work on the American Commonwealth, made himself thoroughly at home in the country; and, after the fashion of American ministers or ambassadors in England, he took up with eagerness and success the role of public orator on matters outside party politics, so far as his diplomatic duties permitted.

In the Avesta, after the separation of the Iranian stock from the Hindu and the rise of Zoroastrianism, which elevated Ormazd to the summit of the Persian theological system, his role was more distinct, though less important; between Ormazd, who reigned in eternal brightness, and Ahriman, whose realm was eternal darkness, he occupied an intermediate position as the greatest of the yazatas, beings created by Ormazd to aid in the destruction of evil and the administration of the world.

After playing a varied role in local and national story, now as banqueting-house and now as prison, it fell gradually into disrepair.

He aspired to the role of a politician, and has left a memorable example of genius degraded to servility for the sake of a riband and a title.

Later a certain Marie Lejay (renamed by the comtesse "Baronne Gay d'Oliva," the last word being apparently an anagram of Valoi), who resembled Marie Antoinette, stated that she had been engaged to play the role of queen in this comedy.

From that day the role of the Natal Field Force was changed from that of a mobile field army into that of a garrison, and two days later it was completely isolated, but not before General French had succeeded in escaping south by train, and the naval authorities had been induced by Sir George White's urgent appeals to send into the town a naval brigade with a few guns of sufficient range and calibre to cope with the heavy position artillery which Joubert was now able to bring into action against the town.

When Lord Roberts arrived in Cape Town on the 10th of January 1900 the three garrisons were still invested, and the relieving forces were still maintaining their role of passive resistance, while at the same time restraining the Dutch in Cape Colony.