ROLL

roll, bowl

(noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

roll

(noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude

roll

(noun) walking with a swaying gait

cast, roll

(noun) the act of throwing dice

roll

(noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form

roll

(noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light

scroll, roll

(noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)

roll, roster

(noun) a list of names; “his name was struck off the rolls”

roller, roll, rolling wave

(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

paradiddle, roll, drum roll

(noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously

peal, pealing, roll, rolling

(noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

bun, roll

(noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet

bankroll, roll

(noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); “he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag”

coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll

(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

roll

(verb) execute a roll, in tumbling; “The gymnasts rolled and jumped”

roll, roll up

(verb) show certain properties when being rolled; “The carpet rolls unevenly”; “dried-out tobacco rolls badly”

roll

(verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder; “the carpet rolled out”; “Yarn rolls well”

seethe, roll

(verb) boil vigorously; “The liquid was seething”; “The water rolled”

roll

(verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; “She rolls her r’s”

wind, wrap, roll, twine

(verb) arrange or or coil around; “roll your hair around your finger”; “Twine the thread around the spool”; “She wrapped her arms around the child”

roll

(verb) begin operating or running; “The cameras were rolling”; “The presses are already rolling”

roll, turn over

(verb) move by turning over or rotating; “The child rolled down the hill”; “turn over on your left side”

roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; “The gypsies roamed the woods”; “roving vagabonds”; “the wandering Jew”; “The cattle roam across the prairie”; “the laborers drift from one town to the next”; “They rolled from town to town”

wheel, roll

(verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; “The President’s convoy rolled past the crowds”

roll

(verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; “The thunder rolled”; “rolling drums”

hustle, pluck, roll

(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

roll, undulate

(verb) occur in soft rounded shapes; “The hills rolled past”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Roll

A diminutive of the male given name Roland.

A surname.

Etymology 1

Verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

(transitive) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.

(intransitive) To turn over and over.

(intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

(transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

(transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.

(intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.

(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

(ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.

(transitive) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.

(intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.

(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey.

(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.

(transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

(transitive) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

(US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

(dice, intransitive) To throw dice.

(dice, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

(RPG) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

(intransitive, computing) To generate a random number.

(intransitive, nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.

(intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.

(transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.

(transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

(intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.

(slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).

(ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.

(transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

(intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.

(figurative, intransitive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

(intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

(figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone

(intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

(transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

(transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

(transitive) To create a customized version of.

(transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

Noun

roll (plural rolls)

The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

Something which rolls.

A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

A swagger or rolling gait.

A heavy, reverberatory sound.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.

The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).

A training match for a fighting dog.

(US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

(paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.

Etymology 2

Noun

roll (plural rolls)

That which is rolled up.

A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

An official or public document; a register; a record

A catalogue or list

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

(US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

Source: Wiktionary

Roll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rolling.] Etym: [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. Control, Roll, n., Rotary.]

1. To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

2. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

3. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean. The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe. J. A. Symonds.

5. To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. Tennyson.

6. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

7. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

8. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

9. (Geom.)

Definition: To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright. Chaucer. To roll one's self, to wallow.

– To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.

– To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

Roll, v. i.

1. To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane. And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. Shak.

2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. "The rolling chair." Dryden.

3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

6. To turn; to move circularly. And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. Dryden.

7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. What different sorrows did within thee roll. Prior.

8. To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about. Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. Pope.

9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. To roll about, to gad abroad. [Obs.] Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. Chaucer.

Roll, n. Etym: [F. rôle a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, v., and cf. Rôle, Rouleau, Roulette.]

1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

2. That which rolls; a roller. Specifically: (a) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. Mortimer. (b) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

3. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. Specifically: (a) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. Prior.

(b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. Sir M. Hale. The roll and list of that army doth remain. Sir J. Davies.

(c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon. (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

5. (Naut.)

Definition: The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

8. Part; office; duty; rôle. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Long roll (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line.

– Master of the rolls. See under Master.

– Roll call, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers.

– Rolls of court, of parliament (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body.

– To call the roll, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present.

Syn.

– List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See List.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

ROLL

Proper noun

Etymology 1

Verb

Noun

Etymology 2

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