Roll

[rəʊl] or [rol]

Definition

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

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

(noun.) walking with a swaying gait.

(noun.) anything rolled up in cylindrical form.

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

(noun.) a list of names; 'his name was struck off the rolls'.

(verb.) execute a roll, in tumbling; 'The gymnasts rolled and jumped'.

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

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

(verb.) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; 'She rolls her r's'.

(verb.) begin operating or running; 'The cameras were rolling'; 'The presses are already rolling'.

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

(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'.

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

(verb.) occur in soft rounded shapes; 'The hills rolled past'.

(verb.) shape by rolling; 'roll a cigarette'.

(verb.) move, rock, or sway from side to side; 'The ship rolled on the heavy seas'.

(verb.) 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' .

(verb.) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; 'The curtains undulated'; 'the waves rolled towards the beach'.

Editor: Mary--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

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

(n.) 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.

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

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.

(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.

(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

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

(v.) That which rolls; a roller.

(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

(v.) 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.

(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

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

(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

(v.) 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.

(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

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

(v.) Part; office; duty; role.

Checker: Percy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Turn (on an axis), make revolve.[2]. Wrap round (one part on another).[3]. Wheel, trundle.

v. n. [1]. Revolve, rotate, turn, wheel, whirl, gyrate, whirl round, go round, turn round.[2]. Run, flow, glide.[3]. Rock from side to side.[4]. Wallow, welter, tumble about.

n. [1]. Volume, scroll.[2]. Chronicle, record, history, annals.[3]. List, register, catalogue, inventory, schedule.[4]. Loaf of bread (small, and rolled up while in the dough).[5]. Rocking (as of a vessel in a heavy sea).[6]. Rub-a-dub, rat-a-tat, TATTOO, beat of drum.

Edited by Daniel

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See BAWL]

SYN:Revolve, wheel, rotate, {turn_over_and_over}, rock, trundle_wallow

Editor: Rudolf

Definition

v.i. to turn like a wheel: to turn on an axis: to be formed into a roll or cylinder: to move as waves: to be tossed about: to move tumultuously: to be hurled: to rock or move from side to side: to wallow: to spread under a roller: to sound as a drum beaten rapidly: to move onward.—v.t. to cause to roll: to turn on an axis: to wrap round on itself: to enwrap: to drive forward: to move upon wheels: to press or smooth with rollers: to beat rapidly as a drum.—n. act of rolling: that which rolls: a revolving cylinder making sheets plates &c.: a roller: that which is rolled up—hence parchment paper &c. wound into a circular form: a document: a register: a kind of fancy bread: the continued sound of a drum of thunder &c.: a swagger or rolling gait.—adj. Roll′-about′ podgy.—ns. Roll′-call the calling of the roll or list of names as in the army; Roll′-cū′mūlus a form of strato-cumulus cloud; Roll′er that which rolls: a cylinder used for rolling grinding &c.: one of a family of Picarian birds: a long broad bandage: (pl.) long heavy waves; Roll′er-skate a skate mounted on wheels or rollers for use on asphalt or some other smooth surface.—adj. Roll′ing modulating: moving on wheels: making a continuous sound.—ns. Roll′ing-mill a place in which metal is made into sheets bars rails or rods by working it between pairs of rolls: a machine for rolling metal &c. into any required form or for crushing materials between rollers; Roll′ing-pin a cylindrical piece of wood for rolling dough paste &c. to any required thickness; Roll′ing-press a press of two cylinders for rolling or calendering cloth; Roll′ing-stock the stock or store of locomotive-engines carriages &c. of a railway; Roll′way an incline: a shoot.—Master of the Rolls the head of the Record-office.

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