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- 1 A character or part played by a performer or actor.
"My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play."
- 2 An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment. historical
- 3 the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group wordnet
- 4 The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
"The role of women has changed significantly in the last century."
- 5 normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting wordnet
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- 6 The function or position of something.
"Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill."
- 7 what something is used for wordnet
- 8 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."
- 9 an actor's portrayal of someone in a play wordnet
- 10 The function of a word in a phrase.
"Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood."
- 11 In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Etymology
From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.
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