Word Finder - roles

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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.

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An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

If their roles were completely reversed.

I think we've got our roles reversed.

Well, the traditional roles of men and women have changed in the last generation.

The school was sponsoring a play with reversed roles – students playing the part of parents and vice versa.

I guess that's the punishment for our roles in the Schism – being pushed aside and forced to watch, Eden said, referring to the war that severed the two realms completely from one another.

The roles of electronic warfare is an essential element of fire support.

They offer a vast array of other film production roles to amateur film makers.

In addition, most of today's television families are made up of divorced, separated, estranged or unmarried couples with blurred parenting roles and children with a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges.

Was she encouraging Alex to assume a paternal role, or was she merely old-fashioned enough to think that men and women had specific roles?

They confront terrifying abysses - physical, emotional, spiritual - and continually change roles, change themselves, change the worlds about them.

The central roles of Joseph and Marion Tura are taken by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard and their performances are marvels of comic acting.

Topics covered include anaphora and verbal anaphora, discourse influences and thematic roles, and the processing of causality information.

Factors that induce involuntary automaticity include ambiguity, stress and fatigue, and lack of clear roles and responsibilities.

To think about the roles involved, we use the metaphor of a barefoot statistician, itself based on the " barefoot statistician, itself based on the " barefoot doctor " .

Brown played two roles - reclusive billionaire Adam and his evil twin brother Zachary.

Further analysis of the microarray data has suggested roles for these regulatory elements other than in the control of flagellar biosynthesis.

The supporting cast are all perfectly capable in their roles too.

The real mentoring was done by the goddess Athena, who is associated with wisdom another good reason for avoiding capitalization of the roles.

He is justly celebrated at Stratford as a comic actor; she is generally identified with more mature roles than that of Juliet.

Much to his parents ' chagrin the company moved to Washington and Dwight toured extensively for two years progressing into bigger and better roles.

New roles of online tutor and ILT champions have been created and a new administrator post has been created in technical support.

Arnie brings a certain charisma to these types of roles which not alot of actors have.

We are also interested in potential roles for the apparatus that holds sister chromatids together in non-dividing somatic cells.

He's a flea handler in his parents flea circus, among other roles.

Alumni interactive services - search for alumni in specific companies or job roles, view job postings, find a classmate.

Working in a very modern office, within a purposely designed building the Customer Service roles will include some general clerical / administration work.

You cannot expect lobbyists to keep their different roles in watertight compartments.

Actors also research roles so that they can grasp concepts quickly during rehearsals and understand the story's setting and background.

A future of controlled fertility and rapidly changing roles of women make projections of sex ratios highly conjectural.

No, Roles are not cumulative like NTFS permissions.

I hope we can lend an ear to what Oxford has to tell us about the roles a Proctor can fulfill.

Some examples of his most famous roles from that period reflects an eclecticism and connection with a postmodern idea of history.

We unexpectedly demonstrate that all these genes play key roles in regulating Pol II transcriptional elongation and termination [44, 45] .

A ' show trial ' followed, with BRE Personnel Officers being acutely embarrassed by the roles they were forced to play.

These include fostering learner engagement, enabling multiple roles for both learners and tutors, and appropriate focusing of assessed tasks.

For we must examine the extent to which the question of the internet affects individuals and their roles as citizens.

Plexus7.co.uk also offer a vast array of other film production roles to semi-professionals, Producers, Writers and amature film makers.

The Guardian obituary describes his roles as juggling " mischievousness, a sardonic wit, and a malicious glee " .

The gang of seven were sentenced at Harrow Crown Court after earlier pleading guilty to their roles in the attempted heist.

There is also a University-wide need to ensure that new hods, HoPUs, PVCs etc are properly inducted into their roles.

Amputees have star roles in war games, like densely plotted, big-budget movie Army fights insurgents in fictitious town.

Roles of wildly varying quality followed, until in 71 Christie began a professional and romantic liaison with Warren Beatty.

Monday's session focused on describing the roles of signaling molecules at the synapse in regulating worm locomotion.

This review examines the roles of the major fibrinolytic factors involved in clot lysis.

Scouts quickly agreed to fill roles as diverse as stretcher-bearers, convoy signallers, firewatchers and bicycle messengers.

These substrates demonstrate the multiple roles of Plk1 in promoting mitosis.

One of his primary roles is to use the House's digital assets to produce educational multimedia.

Roles of the myosin head and tail - force generation by single myosin heads as measured by micromanipulation.

However, as the RAFâs night bomber offensive grew, they were used with the Pathfinder Force and in other roles within Bomber Command.

The module is not suited to purely operational roles in fire and rescue services.