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roll

UK/ɹəʊl/ US/ɹɒʊɫ/ common slang us
verb (18) noun (15)

verb

1.

move by turning over or rotating

  • “The child rolled down the hill”
  • “turn over on your left side”
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2.

move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle

  • “The President”
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3.

occur in soft rounded shapes

  • “The hills rolled past”
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4.

flatten or spread with a roller

  • “roll out the paper”
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5.

emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound

  • “The thunder rolled”
  • “rolling drums”
6.

wrap or coil around

  • “roll your hair around your finger”
  • “Twine the thread around the spool”
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7.

begin operating or running

  • “The cameras were rolling”
  • “The presses are already rolling”
8.

shape by rolling

  • “roll a cigarette”
9.

execute a roll, in tumbling

  • “The gymnasts rolled and jumped”
10.
11.

move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

  • “The curtains undulated”
  • “the waves rolled towards the beach”
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12.

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”
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13.

move, rock, or sway from side to side

  • “The ship rolled on the heavy seas”
14.

cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis

  • “She rolled the ball”
  • “They rolled their eyes at his words”
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15.

pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/

  • “She rolls her r”
16.

boil vigorously

  • “The liquid was seething”
  • “The water rolled”
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17.

take the shape of a roll or cylinder

  • “the carpet rolled out”
  • “Yarn rolls well”
18.

show certain properties when being rolled

  • “The carpet rolls unevenly”
  • “dried-out tobacco rolls badly”
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noun

1.

rotary motion of an object around its own axis

  • “wheels in axial rotation”
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2.

a list of names

  • “his name was struck off the rolls”
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3.

a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

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4.
5.

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

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6.

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”
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7.
8.

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

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9.
10.

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

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11.
12.

the act of throwing dice

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13.
14.
15.

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

Origin

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.

Phrases

  • A roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • aileron roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • Alaska roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • anti-roll bar terms derived from roll (noun)
  • arctic roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • asparagus roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • backwards roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • bacon roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • banana roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • banner roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • banqueting roll terms derived from roll (noun)
  • barrel roll terms derived from roll (noun)

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