role
/ɹoʊl/ noun A1- 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.
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society. · The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
- 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?
- 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.
- The function of a word in a phrase.
- 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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For years, this behavior was blamed on laziness or phones, but scientists now believe that biology plays an important role.
However, I also have a very different role that most people do not expect.
Over the next few days, Unit 7 secretly took on the role of gardener.
The project truly gained momentum in 1879 when a brilliant philologist named James Murray assumed the role of primary editor.
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