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roll down the window
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Перевод песни Windows down (Big time rush)
Windows down
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Why do we “roll” the car windows down, instead of “slide”
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roll down
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roll down the window

1 roll down the window

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Перевод песни Windows down (Big time rush)

Windows down

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Throw it up, woo hoo!
Woo hoo!
Woo hoo!
Yeah, yeah
Woo hoo!
Yeah, yeah

You’re pretty baby, but you know that
Wish I could bring ya, across the map,yeah

I can feel it in the air that it’s on tonight
I don’t really care if it’s wrong or right
Pedal to the metal baby hold me tight
Anything you want I can get that girl
If you’re with that girl

Everybody knows that I want ya
If you want me baby show me
Roll the windows down let your hair flow
Let it all go tonight

Party people!
Woo hoo!
All the windows down
Woo hoo!
When I’m rolling through your town
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah

You drive me crazy but you know that
Feel the breeze girl let’s take a lap,yeah

I can feel it in the air that it’s on tonight
I don’t really care if it’s wrong or right
Petal to the metal baby holds me tight
Anything you want I can get that girl
If you’re with that girl

Everybody knows that I want ya
If you want me baby show me
Roll the windows down let your hair flow
Let it all go tonight

Party people!
Woo hoo!
All the windows down
Woo hoo!
When I’m rolling through your town
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah

Woo hoo!
All the windows down
Woo hoo!
When I’m rolling through your town
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah

Woo hoo!
All the windows down
Woo hoo!
When I’m rolling through your town
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah
Woo hoo!
Saying yeah yeah
Woo hoo!

Поехали! Ву-ху!
Ву-ху!
Ву-ху!
Да, да!
Ву-ху!
Да, да!

Ты прекрасна, детка, и ты знаешь об этом.
Хотел бы я прокатить тебя по всему свету, да!

Я чувствую это в воздухе, что-то случится этой ночью.
И мне в общем-то наплевать, правильно то или нет.
Педаль в пол — детка, держись за меня крепче.
Все, что ты хочешь, детка, я могу осуществить!
Если ты рядом с ней.

Все вокруг знают, что я хочу тебя.
Если ты хочешь меня, не скрывай этого.
Опусти стекла, и пусть твои волосы развеваются,
Пусть этой ночью все случится!

Отрываемся, народ!
Ву-ху!
Опустив стекла.
Ву-ху!
Я мчусь по твоему городу.
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»

Ты сводишь меня с ума, и ты знаешь об этом,
Почувствуй ветер, детка, давай свихнемся!

Ву-ху!
Опустив стекла.
Ву-ху!
Я мчусь по твоему городу.
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»

Ву-ху!
Опустив стекла.
Ву-ху!
Я мчусь по твоему городу.
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»
Ву-ху!
И кричу: «Да, да!»
Ву-ху!

Why do we “roll” the car windows down, instead of “slide”

Rolling implies rotation and translation. Cranking implies the motion people used to do before power windows and Sliding is what actually happens to the window.

When and why did people start using the expression «roll the windows down,» instead of something more descriptive?

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I think the answer is in your question; rolling was the motion applied to windows before power windows. They did not physically apply force so as to directly slide them down, i.e. pushing them down with their hands, instead, they rolled (rotated) the lever, which in turn caused the windows to raise/lower. It is simply the description of the actual force being applied, not the effects of said force.

It’s a reasonable puzzle and baffled me as a child.

As you say rolling is rotation and translation. Rolling up however means winding something round a spool by rotating the spool (or winding the thing round the spool). Sometimes the spool will be translated, but usually it will be fixed. An efficent way of rolling something up is to crank a winch (using the law of the lever). Ropes on boats are rolled up this way. So it’s plausible that rolling something up became synonymous with turning a crank, even in cases where nothing was wound around a spool. And rolling something down became the opposite action.

If you look up the definition of roll, you will see it involves a movement on an axis:

As for crank, the same source states that the movement involved is made in order to start an engine. Therefore, it is more logical that roll a window up/down will be used.

Although I think originally car windows were “let down”, over time the common mechanism was to rotate a lever using a “window handle”, so the common usage became to “roll down” (the physical motion).

Whereas now, the common mechanism is to push an electronic toggle button. Perhaps the new emerging common usage will again return to “let down”.

Maybe it came from the horse and buggy days when they had cloth covers for the windows and they literally had to roll the windows up? Just a theory.

I always assumed it was rolling up and down blinds on the original coaches that had no glass just material over the ‘window’ openings?

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