road roller

English

Alternative forms

road-roller, roadroller

Noun

road roller (plural road rollers)

A heavy engineering vehicle used to compact asphalt in the construction of roads.
Synonym: (informal) steamroller

Usage notes

Originally powered by steam, and thus often called a steamroller

Translations

heavy engineering vehicle used to compact asphalt

Arabic: مِحْدَلَة f (miḥdala), مِدْحَلَة f (midḥala)
Armenian: գլդոն (hy) (gldon)
Belarusian: като́к m (katók), даро́жны като́к m (daróžny katók)
Catalan: piconadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 壓路機／压路机 (zh) (yālùjī)
Czech: vibrační válec m, válec (cs) m
Dutch: stoomwals (nl) f, pletwals (nl) f
Esperanto: ŝoserulo
Estonian: teerull
Finnish: tiejyrä (fi)
French: rouleau compresseur (fr) m
German: Walze (de) f, Straßenwalze f
Greek: οδοστρωτήρας (el) m (odostrotíras)
Hungarian: úthenger (hu)
Icelandic: valtari (is) m
Italian: rullo compressore m
Japanese: ロードローラー (rōdorōrā), 締固め用機械 (しめがためようきかい, shimegatameyō kikai) (formal)
Kazakh: каток (katok)
Korean: 로드 롤러 (rodeu rolleo)
Macedonian: ва́лјак m (váljak)
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: замын индүү (машин) (zamyn indüü (mašin))
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vals (no) m, valse (no) m, veivals m

Nynorsk: vals m, valse m
Polish: walec (pl) m, walec drogowy m
Portuguese: rolo compressor m
Russian: като́к (ru) m (katók), доро́жный като́к m (doróžnyj katók)
Slovak: vibračný valec m, valec m
Spanish: aplanadora (es) f (Latin America), apisonadora f (Spain), compactadora (es) f, compactador m
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: като́к m (katók), доро́жній като́к m (doróžnij katók)
Vietnamese: máy lu, xe lu

road roller

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