Definition of the word roll

roll

to turn; to throw as in dice; a small bread

Not to be confused with:

role – a part played by an actor; a function: the role of a wife

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roll

 (rōl)

v. rolled, roll·ing, rolls

v.intr.

1. To move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

2. To travel or be moved on wheels or rollers: rolled down the sidewalk on their scooters.

3. To travel around; wander: roll from town to town.

4.

a. To travel or be carried in a vehicle.

b. To be carried on a stream: The logs rolled down the cascading river.

5.

a. To start to move or operate: The press wouldn’t roll.

b. To work or succeed in a sustained way; gain momentum: The political campaign finally began to roll.

6. To go by; elapse: The days rolled along.

7. To recur. Often used with around: Summer has rolled around again.

8. To move in a periodic revolution, as a planet in its orbit.

9. To turn over and over: The puppy rolled in the mud.

10. To shift the gaze usually quickly and continually: The child’s eyes rolled with fright.

11. To turn around or revolve on an axis.

12. To move or advance with a rising and falling motion; undulate: The waves rolled toward shore.

13. To extend or appear to extend in gentle rises and falls: The dunes roll to the sea.

14. To move or rock from side to side: The ship pitched and rolled in heavy seas.

15. To walk with a swaying, unsteady motion.

16. Slang To experience periodic rushes after taking an intoxicating drug, especially MDMA.

17. To take the shape of a ball or cylinder: Yarn rolls easily.

18. To become flattened by pressure applied by a roller.

19. To make a deep, prolonged, surging sound: Thunder rolled in the distance.

20. To make a sustained trilling sound, as certain birds do.

21. To beat a drum in a continuous series of short blows.

22. To pour, flow, or move in a continual stream: tourists rolling into the city.

23. To enjoy ample amounts: rolled in the money.

v.tr.

1. To cause to move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

2. To move or push along on wheels or rollers: rolled the plane out of the hangar.

3. To impel or send onward in a steady, swelling motion: The sea rolls its waves onto the sand.

4. To impart a swaying, rocking motion to: Heavy seas rolled the ship.

5. To turn around or partly turn around; rotate: rolled his head toward the door.

6. To cause to begin moving or operating: roll the cameras; roll the presses.

7. To extend or lay out: rolled out a long rope.

8. To pronounce or utter with a trill: You must roll your r‘s in Spanish.

9. To utter or emit in full, swelling tones.

10. To beat (a drum) with a continuous series of short blows.

11. To wrap (something) round and round upon itself or around something else. Often used with up: roll up a poster.

12.

a. To envelop or enfold in a covering: roll dirty laundry in a sheet.

b. To make by shaping into a ball or cylinder: roll a cigarette.

13. To spread, compress, or flatten by applying pressure with a roller: roll pastry dough.

14. Printing To apply ink to (type) with a roller or rollers.

15. Games To throw (dice), as in craps.

16. Slang To rob (a drunken, sleeping, or otherwise helpless person).

n.

1. The act or an instance of rolling.

2. Something rolled up: a roll of tape.

3. A quantity, as of cloth or wallpaper, rolled into a cylinder and often considered as a unit of measure.

4. A piece of parchment or paper that may be or is rolled up; a scroll.

5. A register or a catalogue.

6. A list of names of persons belonging to a group.

7. A mass in cylindrical or rounded form: a roll of tobacco.

8.

a. A small loaf of bread, portioned for one individual and often served as a side dish or appetizer or used to make a sandwich.

b. A portion of food wrapped around a filling: cinnamon roll; sushi roll.

9. A rolling, swaying, or rocking motion.

10. A gentle swell or undulation of a surface: the roll of the plains.

11. A deep reverberation or rumble: the roll of thunder.

12. A rapid succession of short sounds: the roll of a drum.

13. A trill: the roll of his r‘s.

14. A resonant, rhythmical flow of words.

15. A roller, especially a cylinder on which to roll something up or with which to flatten something.

16.

a. An amount of rotation around a longitudinal axis, as of an aircraft or boat.

b. A maneuver in which an airplane makes a single complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.

17. Slang Money, especially a wad of paper money.

Phrasal Verbs:

roll back

1. To reduce (prices or wages, for example) to a previous lower level.

2. To cause to turn back or retreat.

roll out

1. To get out of bed.

2. To initiate or produce for the first time; introduce: roll out a new product line.

3. Football To execute a rollout.

roll over

1. To defer or postpone payment of (an obligation).

2. To renegotiate the terms of (a financial deal).

3. To reinvest (funds from a maturing security or from a tax-deferred account) into a similar security or account.

roll up

1. To arrive in a vehicle.

2. To accumulate; amass: rolled up quite a fortune.

3. To destroy or eliminate by military action: «Give him some infantry and he would roll up the enemy flank» (Brooks D. Simpson).

Idioms:

on a roll Informal

Undergoing or experiencing sustained, even increasing good fortune or success: «The stock market’s on a roll» (Karen Pennar).

roll in the hay Slang

Sexual intercourse.

roll the bones Games

To cast dice, especially in craps.

roll with the punches Slang

To cope with and withstand adversity, especially by being flexible.

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[Middle English rollen, from Old French roler, from Vulgar Latin *rotulāre, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

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roll

(rəʊl)

vb

1. to move or cause to move along by turning over and over

2. to move or cause to move along on wheels or rollers

3. to flow or cause to flow onwards in an undulating movement: billows of smoke rolled over the ground.

4. (Zoology) (intr) (of animals, etc) to turn onto the back and kick: the hills roll down to the sea.

5. (intr) to extend in undulations: the hills roll down to the sea.

6. (usually foll by: around) to move or occur in cycles

7. (Astronomy) (intr) (of a planet, the moon, etc) to revolve in an orbit

8. (intr; foll by on, by, etc) to pass or elapse: the years roll by.

9. to rotate or cause to rotate wholly or partially: to roll one’s eyes.

10. to curl, cause to curl, or admit of being curled, so as to form a ball, tube, or cylinder; coil

11. to make or form by shaping into a ball, tube, or cylinder: to roll a cigarette.

12. (often foll by out) to spread or cause to spread out flat or smooth under or as if under a roller: to roll the lawn; to roll pastry.

13. to emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound: the thunder rolled continuously.

14. to trill or cause to be trilled: to roll one’s r’s.

15. (intr) (of a vessel, aircraft, rocket, etc) to turn from side to side around the longitudinal axis. Compare pitch¹¹¹, yaw¹

16. (Aeronautics) to cause (an aircraft) to execute a roll or (of an aircraft) to execute a roll (sense 40). (of an aircraft) to execute or cause an aircraft to execute a roll⁴¹

17. (intr) to walk with a swaying gait, as when drunk; sway

18. (often foll by: over) (of an animal, esp a dog) to lie on its back and wriggle while kicking its legs in the air, without moving along

19. (intr) to wallow or envelop oneself (in)

20. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to apply ink to (type, etc) with a roller or rollers

21. (Games, other than specified) to throw (dice)

22. (intr) to operate or begin to operate: the presses rolled.

23. (intr) informal to make progress; move or go ahead: let the good times roll.

24. (tr) informal chiefly US and NZ to rob (a helpless person, such as someone drunk or asleep)

25. (tr) slang to have sexual intercourse or foreplay with (a person)

26. start the ball rolling set the ball rolling to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)

n

27. the act or an instance of rolling

28. anything rolled up in a cylindrical form: a roll of newspaper.

29. an official list or register, esp of names: an electoral roll.

30. a rounded mass: rolls of flesh.

31. a strip of material, esp leather, fitted with pockets or pouches for holding tools, toilet articles, needles and thread, etc

32. (Tools) a cylinder used to flatten something; roller

33. (Cookery) a small loaf of bread for one person: eaten plain, with butter, or as a light meal when filled with meat, cheese, etc

34. (Cookery) a flat pastry or cake rolled up with a meat (sausage roll), jam (jam roll), or other filling. See also swiss roll

35. a swell, ripple, or undulation on a surface: the roll of the hills.

36. a swaying, rolling, or unsteady movement or gait

37. a deep prolonged reverberating sound: the roll of thunder.

38. a rhythmic cadenced flow of words

39. a trilling sound; trill

40. (Music, other) a very rapid beating of the sticks on a drum

41. (Aeronautics) a flight manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes one complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without loss of height or change in direction

42. the angular displacement of a vessel, rocket, missile, etc, caused by rolling

43. (Games, other than specified) a throw of dice

44. (Tools) a bookbinder’s tool having a brass wheel, used to impress a line or repeated pattern on the cover of a book

45. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a bookbinder’s tool having a brass wheel, used to impress a line or repeated pattern on the cover of a book

46. slang an act of sexual intercourse or petting (esp in the phrase a roll in the hay)

47. (Banking & Finance) slang US an amount of money, esp a wad of paper money

48. on a roll slang experiencing continued good luck or success

49. strike off the roll strike off the rolls

a. to expel from membership

b. to debar (a solicitor) from practising, usually because of dishonesty

[C14 rollen, from Old French roler, from Latin rotulus a little wheel, from rota a wheel]

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roll

(roʊl)

v.i.

1. to move along a surface by turning over and over.

2. to move or be moved on wheels.

3. to flow or advance with an undulating motion, as waves.

4. to extend in undulations, as land.

5. to elapse, as time.

6. to move as in a cycle, as seasons (usu. fol. by round or around).

7. to emit or have a deep, prolonged sound, as thunder.

8. to trill, as a bird.

9. to turn over, as a person lying down.

10. (of the eyes) to turn around in different directions.

11. (of a vessel)

a. to rock from side to side in open water.

b. to sail with a side-to-side rocking motion.

12. to walk with a swinging or swaying gait.

13. Informal.

a. to begin to move or operate: Let’s roll at sunrise.

b. to make progress; advance: The project is really rolling now.

14. to curl up so as to form a ball or cylinder.

15. to become spread out or flattened.

16. (of an aircraft or rocket) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by rotation about the longitudinal axis.

v.t.

17. to cause to move along a surface by turning over and over.

18. to move along on wheels or rollers.

19. to drive or cause to flow onward with an undulating motion.

20. to utter or give forth with a full, flowing, continuous sound.

21. to trill: to roll one’s r ‘s.

22. to cause to turn over.

23. to turn around in different directions: to roll one’s eyes.

24. to cause to sway or rock from side to side, as a ship.

25. to wrap around an axis or around itself: to roll string.

26. to make by forming into a cylinder: to roll a cigarette.

27. to spread out flat (something curled up) (often fol. by out).

28. to wrap or envelop, as in a covering.

29. to spread out, level, compact, or the like, as with a rolling pin.

30. to beat (a drum) with rapid, continuous strokes.

31. (in certain games, as craps) to throw (dice).

32. to apply (ink) with a roller or series of rollers.

33. Slang. to rob, esp. by going through the pockets of a victim who is asleep or drunk.

34. roll back, to reduce (prices, wages, etc.) to a former level.

35. roll in, Informal. to arrive, esp. in large numbers or quantity: When does the money start rolling in?

36. roll out,

a. to spread out or flatten.

b. Informal. to arise, as from bed.

c. Football. to execute a rollout.

37. roll over, to reinvest (funds), as from one stock or bond into another.

38. roll up,

a. to amass in increasing quantities or amounts.

b. to arrive in a car, carriage, or other vehicle.

n.

39. a piece of paper, parchment, or the like, that is rolled up.

40. a register, catalog, or list, as of membership.

41. anything rolled up in a ringlike or cylindrical form.

42. a length of cloth, wallpaper, or the like, rolled up in cylindrical form, often forming a definite measure.

43. a cylindrical or rounded mass of something: rolls of fat.

44. a roller.

45.

a. thin cake spread with jelly or the like and rolled up.

b. a small cake of bread sometimes folded over before baking.

c. meat rolled up and cooked.

46. an act or instance of rolling.

47. undulation, as of a surface.

48. a sonorous or rhythmical flow of words.

49. a deep, prolonged sound, as of thunder or drums.

50. the trill of certain birds.

51. a rolling motion or gait.

52. Aerospace.

a. a single, complete rotation of an airplane about the axis of the fuselage with little loss of altitude or change of direction.

b. (of an aircraft or rocket) the act of rolling.

c. the angular displacement caused by rolling.

53. Informal.

a. paper currency carried folded or rolled up.

b. bankroll; funds.

54. (in various dice games)

a. a single cast of or turn at casting the dice.

b. the total number of pips or points made by a single cast; score or point.

Idioms:

1. on a roll, experiencing an interval of success and good fortune.

2. roll with the punches, to cope by accommodating to adversity and remaining flexible.

[1175–1225; (n.) Middle English: scroll, register, cylindrical object < Old French ro(u)lle < Latin rotulus, rotula small wheel, diminutive of rota wheel; (v.) Middle English < Old French rol(l)er < Vulgar Latin *rotulare, derivative of Latin rotulus, rotula]

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

roll

1. The rotation of an aircraft or ship about its longitudinal axis.
2. In air photography, the camera rotation about the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. Also called tilt. See also tilt angle.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Roll

 a succession of sounds.

Examples: roll of drums (drum beats), 1842; of language, 1858; of thunder, 1818; of breaking waves, 1889.

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

role

– roll

These words are both pronounced /rəʊl/.

1. ‘role’

Your role is your position and what you do in a situation or society.

What is the role of the university in modern society?

He had played a major role in the formation of the United Nations.

A role is also one of the characters that an actor or singer plays in a film, play, opera, or musical.

She played the leading role in The Winter’s Tale.

2. ‘roll’

A roll is a very small loaf of bread.

The soup is served with a roll and butter.

A roll of something such as cloth or paper is a long piece of it wrapped many times around itself or around a tube.

I bought a roll of wallpaper.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

roll

Past participle: rolled
Gerund: rolling

Imperative
roll
roll

Present
I roll
you roll
he/she/it rolls
we roll
you roll
they roll

Preterite
I rolled
you rolled
he/she/it rolled
we rolled
you rolled
they rolled

Present Continuous
I am rolling
you are rolling
he/she/it is rolling
we are rolling
you are rolling
they are rolling

Present Perfect
I have rolled
you have rolled
he/she/it has rolled
we have rolled
you have rolled
they have rolled

Past Continuous
I was rolling
you were rolling
he/she/it was rolling
we were rolling
you were rolling
they were rolling

Past Perfect
I had rolled
you had rolled
he/she/it had rolled
we had rolled
you had rolled
they had rolled

Future
I will roll
you will roll
he/she/it will roll
we will roll
you will roll
they will roll

Future Perfect
I will have rolled
you will have rolled
he/she/it will have rolled
we will have rolled
you will have rolled
they will have rolled

Future Continuous
I will be rolling
you will be rolling
he/she/it will be rolling
we will be rolling
you will be rolling
they will be rolling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been rolling
you have been rolling
he/she/it has been rolling
we have been rolling
you have been rolling
they have been rolling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been rolling
you will have been rolling
he/she/it will have been rolling
we will have been rolling
you will have been rolling
they will have been rolling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been rolling
you had been rolling
he/she/it had been rolling
we had been rolling
you had been rolling
they had been rolling

Conditional
I would roll
you would roll
he/she/it would roll
we would roll
you would roll
they would roll

Past Conditional
I would have rolled
you would have rolled
he/she/it would have rolled
we would have rolled
you would have rolled
they would have rolled

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Translations

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹol/, /ɹoʊl/, [ɹʷoɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophone: role

Etymology 1[edit]

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.

Verb[edit]

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

1. (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.

   To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, lines 267–268, page 370:

     Huge Trunks of Trees, fell’d from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

2. (intransitive) To turn over and over.

   The child will roll on the floor.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 13:

     The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty’s skirt near the little pool by the rock.

3. (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
4. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

   To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

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

   To roll up the map for shipping.

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

   The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

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

   This river will roll its waters to the ocean.

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

   To roll forth someone’s praises; to roll out sentences.

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

   to roll a field;  to roll paste;  to roll steel rails.

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

    The pastry rolls well.

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

    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

      We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

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

    I want to get there early; let’s roll.

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

    OK guys, we’re only down by two points. Let’s roll!

14. (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
15. (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.
16. (transitive) To turn over in one’s mind; to revolve.
17. (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

    I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn’t worth getting all worked up over; I don’t roll like that.

    • 2006, Chris McKenna, «Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens», Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [1].

      «This is how we roll in Spring Valley,» one teen reportedly boasted.

18. (dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.
19. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

    If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

    With two dice, you’re more likely to roll seven than ten.

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

    I’m gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.

21. (intransitive, computing) To generate a random number.
22. (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
23. (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
    • 19th c., Rolling Down to Old Maui (anon.)

      We’re homeward bound from the Arctic ground / Rolling down to Old Maui

    • early 20th c., Randy Dandy-O (anon.)

      Now we are ready to head for the Horn / Way-hey, roll and go!

24. (transitive) To beat up; to assault.

    • 1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Herbert Huncke, “The Beatnick’s Beatnick”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

      Sometimes I’d roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morning

    • 2006, Elizabeth Gaffney, Metropolis, page 422:

      They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.

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

    The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he’d done.

26. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.

    He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.

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

    • 2000, Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance‎^[3], Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 15:

      Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”

    • 2003, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 169:

      The crowd was rolling on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. […] He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was rolling.

    • a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN

      So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]

28. (transitive, intransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.

    The cameras are rolling.

    It’s time to roll the cameras.

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

    • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

      So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.

    • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, «Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals», The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

      Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker’s foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.

30. (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.

    the hills rolled on

    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

      In this part of Warwickshire, the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.

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

    The years roll on.

32. (intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
33. (figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World

      Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul,

      what different sorrows did within thee roll?

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

    The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

35. (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

    Many languages roll their r’s.

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

    The kids rolled the principal’s house and yard.

37. (transitive) To create a customized version of.
    • 2000, Mark F. Komarinski and Cary Collett, Red Hat Linux System Administration Handbook, page 311, [5]

      Let’s go through and outline how you might roll a kernel for a networked Linux machine you are using as your desktop machine and a file server for a network of Windows and Mac machines.

    • 2006, Keyboard, volume 32, page 188, [6]

      The clap in «Situation» is a standard Roland TR- 808 clap with a some compression and a bunch of reverb. But we can roll our own version using a soft synth and a have more flexibility, specifically in getting the extra decay for full «smash,» as opposed to the short clap on Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.

    • 2010, Joseph Rattz and Adam Freeman, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010, page 208, [7]

      For the second prototype’s example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.

    • 2015, Hyer Thomas, Derivatives Algorithms — Volume 1: Bones (Second Edition), page 135, [8]

      We implement Cube_ as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficiently Swap with lower-dimensional containers is not supported by the boost::multi_array template, so we must roll our own.

38. (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
39. (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

    Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.

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Noun[edit]

roll (plural rolls)

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

   the roll of a ball

   Look at the roll of the waves.

   the roll of her eyes

2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
3. Something which rolls.
   1. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
   2. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

      to pass rails through the rolls

4. A swagger or rolling gait.
5. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

   Hear the roll of cannon.

   There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.

6. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
7. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about 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.
8. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
9. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

   Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

10. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.

    The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.

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

    Make your roll.

    Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.

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

    He is on a roll tonight.

13. A training match for a fighting dog.
14. (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

    That was a good roll.

15. (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

16. (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, «rolling» a position from one expiry to another.

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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, role, roule, from Medieval Latin rotulus (“a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a paper or parchment rolled up”); as such, it is a doublet of role.

Noun[edit]

roll (plural rolls)

1. That which is rolled up.

   a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World

     Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.

3. An official or public document; a register; a record.
   • 1713 Sir M. Hale, The History of the Common Law of England (posthumously published)

     As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower

4. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.

   Several people sued the state after finding out that they’d been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.

   • c. 1666, John Davies, Historical Relations: Or, a Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued, Nor Brought Under Obedience of the Crown of England Until the Beginning of the Reign of King James I

     The roll and list of that army doth remain.

5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

   a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
8. (obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCCXI. A Son Singing at his Brothers Funeral.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 273:

     THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another.

9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 594:

     Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• Rolls
• welt

Further reading[edit]

• roll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “roll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

roll m (genitive singular roll, nominative plural rollanna)

1. roll

Declension[edit]

Verb[edit]

roll (present analytic rollann, future analytic rollfaidh, verbal noun rolladh, past participle rollta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) roll
   1. (transitive) form into a roll

Conjugation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• rollaigh, rolláil

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “roll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “roll” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “roll” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

roll c

1. role
2. roll (the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis)

Declension[edit]

Declension of roll
	Singular	Plural
Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	roll	rollen	roller	rollerna
Genitive	rolls	rollens	rollers	rollernas

Derived terms[edit]

• (part): huvudroll, huvudrollsinnehavare, karaktärsroll, könsroll, rollfördelning, rollista, rollspel, spela någon roll , det spelar ingen roll, titelroll, yrkesroll
• (rotation): tunnelroll

Further reading[edit]

• roll in Svensk ordbok.

• Defenition of the word roll

  • To tip laterally.
  • A flight maneuver; the aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning).
  • To flatten or spread with a roller.
  • To arrange or coil around.
  • To begin operating or running.
  • To move by turning over or rotating.
  • To shape (e.g. a cigarette) by rolling.
  • 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»
  • small rounded bread either plain or sweet
  • the act of throwing dice
  • a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
  • sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and esp. underhanded activity
  • the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
  • a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder)
  • the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
  • a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
  • walking with a rolling gait
  • a roll of photographic film
  • execute a roll, in tumbling; «The gymnasts rolled and jumped»
  • shape by rolling; «roll a cigarette»
  • pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ «She rolls her r’s».
  • begin operating or running; «The cameras were rolling»; «The presses are already rolling»
  • emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; «The thunder rolled»; «rolling drums»
  • to rotate or cause to rotate: «The child rolled down the hill»; «She rolled the ball her eyes at his words»
  • a list of names; «his name was struck off the rolls»
  • occur in soft rounded shapes; «The hills rolled past»
  • a cylinder that revolves
  • a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
  • flatten or spread with a roller; «roll out the paper»
  • a complete turn; «the plane made three rotations before it crashed»
  • a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
  • boil vigorously; «The liquid was seething»
  • move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
  • wrap around, move around
  • anything rolled up in cylindrical form
  • photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
  • a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
  • rotary motion of an object around its own axis; «wheels in axial rotation»
  • show certain properties when being rolled; «The carpet rolls unevenly»; «dried-out tobacco rolls badly»
  • take the shape of a roll or cylinder; «the carpet rolled out»; «Yarn rolls well»
  • boil vigorously; «The liquid was seething»; «The water rolled»
  • pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; «She rolls her r»s»
  • wrap or coil around; «roll your hair around your finger»; «Twine the thread around the spool»
  • move by turning over or rotating; «The child rolled down the hill»; «turn over on your left side»
  • 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»
  • move, rock, or sway from side to side; «The ship rolled on the heavy seas»
  • 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 ro
  • move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; «The President»s convoy rolled past the crowds»
  • move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; «The curtains undulated»; «the waves rolled towards the beach»
  • sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
  • walking with a swaying gait
  • a list of names
  • rotary motion of an object around its own axis
  • a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
  • a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  • execute a roll, in tumbling
  • show certain properties when being rolled
  • take the shape of a roll or cylinder
  • shape by rolling
  • boil vigorously
  • pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
  • flatten or spread with a roller
  • arrange or or coil around
  • begin operating or running
  • move by turning over or rotating
  • cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
  • move, rock, or sway from side to side
  • move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  • emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
  • occur in soft rounded shapes

Synonyms for the word roll

• • bankroll
  • bun
  • cast
  • coil
  • curl
  • curlicue
  • cylinder
  • drum roll
  • gyration
  • gyre
  • hustle
  • move
  • paradiddle
  • peal
  • pealing
  • pluck
  • reel
  • revolution
  • revolve
  • ringlet
  • roll out
  • roller
  • rolling
  • rolling wave
  • roster
  • rotate
  • rotation
  • scroll
  • seethe
  • spin
  • spool
  • sway
  • tube
  • turn
  • turn over
  • turn round
  • undulate
  • wheel
  • whorl
  • wind
  • wrap

Similar words in the roll

• • avalanche
  • roll
  • roll down
  • roll over
  • roll up
  • rolland
  • rolland’s
  • rollback
  • rollback’s
  • rollbacks
  • roller
  • roller’s
  • rollerblade
  • rollerblades
  • rollers
  • rollick
  • rollicked
  • rollicking
  • rollicks
  • rollins
  • wrap up

Meronymys for the word roll

• • bowling
  • crap game
  • crap shooting
  • craps
  • crapshoot

Hyponyms for the word roll

• • bagel
  • ball
  • barrel roll
  • batting order
  • beigel
  • bolt
  • bowl
  • brioche
  • calyx
  • card
  • church roll
  • clew
  • clover-leaf roll
  • clue
  • coffee roll
  • cog
  • coil
  • corolla
  • crescent roll
  • croissant
  • curl
  • Dead Sea scrolls
  • death-roll
  • frankfurter bun
  • gad
  • gallivant
  • hamburger bun
  • hamburger roll
  • hard roll
  • hotdog bun
  • jazz around
  • kaiser roll
  • lineup
  • loop
  • luff
  • maunder
  • Megillah
  • mill
  • muster roll
  • natural
  • onion roll
  • Parker House roll
  • reel
  • rim
  • rota
  • rouleau
  • snap roll
  • soft roll
  • spool
  • sweet roll
  • tea bread
  • Torah
  • transit
  • troll
  • verticil
  • Vienna roll
  • waiting list
  • wallow

Hypernyms for the word roll

• • actuation
  • airplane maneuver
  • articulate
  • boil
  • bread
  • breadstuff
  • cash in hand
  • change
  • change form
  • change shape
  • churn
  • cylinder
  • deform
  • displace
  • enounce
  • enunciate
  • film
  • finances
  • flatten
  • flight maneuver
  • form
  • function
  • funds
  • gait
  • go
  • gyration
  • holograph
  • list
  • listing
  • locomote
  • manuscript
  • moil
  • monetary resource
  • move
  • moving ridge
  • operate
  • pecuniary resource
  • photographic film
  • pronounce
  • propulsion
  • revolution
  • rock
  • roil
  • rotation
  • round shape
  • run
  • say
  • shake
  • shape
  • sound
  • sound out
  • staff of life
  • steal
  • surname
  • sway
  • throw
  • travel
  • tumble
  • turn
  • turning
  • wave
  • work

Antonyms for the word roll

• • unroll
  • unwind
  • wind off

See other words

• • What is toad
  • The definition of roast
  • The interpretation of the word titanium
  • What is meant by scarlet pimpernel
  • The lexical meaning tip
  • The dictionary meaning of the word rock
  • The grammatical meaning of the word tinkle
  • Meaning of the word robin
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word tine
  • The origin of the word schematic drawing
  • Synonym for the word tombolo
  • Antonyms for the word tombstone
  • Homonyms for the word roofline
  • Hyponyms for the word robe
  • Holonyms for the word tone number
  • Hypernyms for the word tonsure
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word schlock
  • Translation of the word in other languages rod

1	0   0 n. ~ 1. A document wound into a cylinder; a scroll. — 2. A length of film or tape wound into a cylinder, frequently on a core or reel. — 3. A list of persons or property made for a special purpose, su [..]

2	0   0 roll To install the floor joists or trusses in their correct place. (To roll the floor means to install the floor joists).

3	0   0 roll On Roll-Off — Ro-Ro. In the UK, describes ferries which vehicles can be driven onto at one end and driven off at the other end on reaching their destination.

4	0   0 roll The list of voters eligible to vote at an election.

5	0   0 roll c. 1300 «turn over and over, move by rotating» (intransitive); late 14c. as «to move (something) by turning it over and over;» from Old French roeller «roll, wheel round» [..]

6	0   0 roll early 13c., «rolled-up piece of parchment or paper» (especially one inscribed with an official record), from Old French rolle «document, parchment scroll, decree» (12c.), from Medi [..]

7	0   0 roll noun revolving, turning noun cylindrical object noun list, roster noun growl, reverberation verb revolve, turn; proceed smoothly verb spread out verb thunder, reverberate verb rock, sway

8	0   0 roll The movement of a curling stone after it has struck a stationary stone in play.

9	0   0 roll Of the three axes in flight, this specifies the action around a central point. Compare PITCH and YAW.

10	0   0 roll (1) A high place in the bottom or a low place in the top of a mine passage, (2) a local thickening of roof or floor strata, causing thinning of a coal seam.

11	0   0 roll Roll [N] [S]the common form of ancient books. The Hebrew word rendered «roll» or «volume» is meghillah , found in Ezra 6:2 ; Psalms 40:7 ; Jeremiah 36:2 Jeremiah 36:6 Jeremiah 36:2 [..]

12	0   0 roll A sustained sound on the drums produced by fast alternate strokes of the drum sticks.

13	0   0 roll 1. (also "vertical roll") the curve of the face of a wood or metal wood (from top to bottom, also see bulge or horizontal bulge)  2. descriptive of the quality or appearance of a st [..]

14	0   0 roll axial rotation: rotary motion of an object around its own axis; "wheels in axial rotation" move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill& [..]

15

0   0 roll A design characteristic of woods, roll is the vertical curvature of the face measured in inches of radius. Roll helps reduce the negative effects of hitting the ball too low or too high on the club face by providing additional loft when the ball is hit high on the face and less loft when the ball is hit low on the face. The amount of roll required [..]

16	0   0 roll A seldom used term today; the name implies a roll of the wrists to induce a draw

17

0   0 roll A rotational motion in which the aircraft turns around its longitudinal axis. Pushing the control stick to the left will raise the aileron on the left wing and lower the aileron on the right wing. This will cause the airplane to roll to the left. The pilot will see the left wing tip fall and the right wing tip rise.

18	0   0 roll The measure of face curvature from crown to sole on wood and hybrid clubs.

19	0   0 roll When you’re playing online sic bo the roll button will commence the game after you’ve placed all your bets. This will start a digital roll which uses a random number generator computer program to [..]

20	0   0 roll to move along by turning over and over. The same word also means a kind of bread

21	0   0 roll Routing in Low power and Lossy Networks

22	0   0 roll Of the three axes in flight, this specifies the action around a central point. Compare PITCH and YAW.

23	0   0 roll The principal metalworking tool that is mounted on weld tube mills and roll formers. Rolls contact the metal strip as it enters the process. They provide both the friction to pull the strip through th [..]

24	0   0 roll A book in ancient times consisted of a single long strip of paper or parchment, which was usually kept rolled upon a stick, and was unrolled when a person wished to read it. The roll was usually writt [..]

25	0   0 roll the common form of ancient books. The Hebrew word rendered «roll» or «volume» is _meghillah_, found in Ezra 6:2; Ps. 40:7; Jer. 36:2, 6, 23, 28, 29; Ezek. 2:9; 3:1-3; Zech. 5:1, 2. [..]

26	0   0 roll Definition noun

27	0   0 roll Web of paper. Paper wound around a core or shaft to form a continuous roll or web of paper.

28	0   0 roll To make a dough or pastry thinner by compressing it between a rolling pin and work surface in a backwards and forwards rolling motion.

29	0   0 roll valgern

30	0   0 roll Latin: rotulus. A manuscript written on a length of papyrus, parchment, or vellum, assembled from sheets (kollemata) pasted edge-to-edge with the overlapped sheet to the left to prevent the pen from c [..]

31	0   0 roll The list of all the registered electors for a particular electorate kept by the Registrar of Electors.

32	0   0 roll A tremolo effect performed on a drum (or almost any percussion instrument) using a continuous series of strokes. In short, the roll is a method to produce a sustained sound on a drum. Rolls are use [..]

33	0   0 roll 1 : a document containing an official record 2 : an official list [the public relief s]: as a : a list of members of a legislative body [the clerk called the and recorded the votes] b : a list of …

34	0   0 roll To coat lightly with a powdery substance; to dredge.

35	0   0 roll Producing a concrete curb by hand shaping or hand rolling the curb without the use of face forms. See face forms

36	0   0 roll To re-book cargo to a later vessel.

37	0   0 roll A reel or spool of tape, film, paper, or other material; to move, revolve, or play a film or tape; the vertical movement of a film or TV picture. A roll-in

38	0   0 roll 1) Membranes (rotuli) of parchment stitched together to form a record.    (Frame, Robin. Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369, 144) 2) Document, comprising parchment sheets, stitched end to end or all t [..]

39	0   0 roll Rotation about the axis of linear motion.

40	0   0 roll The rotation of a car’s body about a longitudinal axis. Also less accurately called «sway» or «lean,» it occurs in corners because the car’s center of gravity is almost a [..]

41	0   0 roll See Electoral Roll.

42	0   0 roll To form a food into a shape. Dough, for instance, can be rolled into ropes or balls. The phrase «roll out» refers to mechanically flattening a food, usually a dough or pastry, with a rolling [..]

43	0   0 roll To coat lightly with a powdery substance; to dredge.

44	0   0 roll (n) rotary motion of an object around its own axis(n) a list of names(n) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore(n) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from [..]

45	0   0 roll See trill.

46	0   0 roll the rotation of a vessel about its longitudinal (front/back) axis.

47	0   0 roll To install the floor joists or trusses in their correct place. (To «roll the floor» means to install the floor joists).

48	0   0 roll The flying roll of Zechariah (v. 1–5). “Predictions of evils to come on a nation are like the Flying Roll of Zechariah.” This roll (twenty cubits long and ten wide) was full [..]

49	0   0 roll The angular motion of a ship in the athwartship plane. See also pitch.

50	0   0 roll A description of the rolling or banking movement of an aircraft to the left or right. The wing ailerons control roll.

51	0   0 roll The motion of a vehicle which has been retarded at the ground level while the remainder of the vehicle continues moving forward without leaving the ground; rollover.  One of the three principles axis [..]

52	0   0 roll Of the three axes in flight, this specifies the action around a central point. Compare PITCH and YAW.

53	0   0 roll Units:  degrees, mrad Maximum rotation around the X axis as the stage moves in the X direction. Maximum rotation around the X axis as the stage moves in the X direction. degrees, mrad

54	0   0 roll A loss of vertical sync which causes the picture to move up or down on the TV screen. Rs232

55	0   0 roll The movement of a vehicle’s body while in motion in relation to its idle state — particularly noticeable while cornering.

56	0   0 roll 1. Perforated paper roll as used on a player piano, orchestrion, organ, etc. Can be of the endless or rewind type. 2. Sustained or reiterating striking action, particular on a drum (as in snare drum r [..]

57	0   0 roll Bank angle; Symbols: phi,Phi; Typical Units: rad, deg;

58	0   0 roll To flatten the playing surface with a heavy rolling device. At the end of an innings, the side about to start their innings will be offered the choice of a heavy or light roller

59	0   0 roll drum roll. Rolls (single stroke, double stroke, 5 stroke, etc.) that help make up the 40 drum rudiments.

60	0   0 roll A loss of vertical synchronization which causes the picture to move up or down on a receiver or monitor.

61	0   0 roll In relation to movement, it is the angular rotation about the longitudinal axis (plane of translation), typically the X-axis for X-Y-Z configurations.

62	0   0 roll In human terms, used to indicate side to side rotational movement performed by a device such as a camera platform or human head. Specifically, rotation about an axis parallel to the optic axis.

63	0   0 roll Not heard all to often in bar terms. To roll or box a drink, first build the drink then pour it once into and out of a shaker tin. This gently mixes the drink.

64	0   0 roll Liquors are poured into one glass, then into another and back again to ensure mixing.

65	0   0 roll The sideways movement of a curling stone after it has struck a stationary stone.

66	0   0 roll A ship’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft/longitudinal axis.

67	0   0 roll Rhythmic inclination of a vessel from side to side when in a seaway.

68	0   0 roll The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternately to port and starboard; the motion of a boat about its fore-and-aft axis.

69	0   0 roll Motion of the ship from side to side, alternately raising and lowering each side of the deck

70	0   0 roll A vessel’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft/longitudinal axis.

71	0   0 roll The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternately to port and starboard; the motion of a boat about its fore:and:aft axis.

72	0   0 roll  The side to side movement of a vessel.

73	0   0 roll the side-to-side rocking of a ship at sea. Usually the most prominent motion of the ship, and a great contributor to seasickness. Other movements are pitch and yaw.

74	0   0 roll A vessel’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft axis. List (qv) is a lasting tilt in the roll direction.

75	0   0 roll A vessel’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft/longitudinal axis. List (qv

76	0   0 roll A vessel’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft/longitudinal axis. Listing is a lasting, stable tilt, or heel, along the longitudinal axis. Roll is also an alternate name for the longitudinal axis (roll axis).

77	0   0 roll (1) Dynamic movement of a ship or aircraft about the lateral axis, i.e. a tilting of the deck from side to side, usually due to motion of the water (i.e. the passage of waves). Contrast with LIST, HEE [..]

78	0   0 roll a vessel’s motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft axis. Compare to Pitch, Headway, Sternway, Yaw, Leeway, Drift, Surge, and Heave

79	0   0 roll The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternately to port and starboard; the motion of a boat about its fore-and-aft axis.

80	0   0 roll The side to side strafing motion of the multicopter controlled by the left and right movement of the right control stick on a Mode II transmitter.

81	0   0 roll Flatten and spread with a rolling pin

82	0   0 roll To roll means to rob a sleeping drunk.

83	0   0 roll A wad of money.

84	0   0 roll A record of the proceedings of a court or public office. Examples include judgment rolls (case files), assessment and tax rolls, and delinquent tax rolls.

85	0   0 roll A basic aircraft maneuver, used to rotate or turn the aircraft to one side along its longitudinal axis, created by an up or down motion of the wings.

86	0   0 roll Rotation of the UAV around the front to back axis.

87	0   0 roll Oscillation of a craft about its longitudinal axis. Also called ROLLING. See also LIST, n.; SHIP MOTIONS.

88	0   0 roll Amongst the islands of the West Indies, the South Atlantic and the South Indian Ocean, swell waves which after moving into shallow water have grown to such height as to be destructive. See also COMBER [..]

89	0   0 roll To change the angle of the plane’s wings relative to horizontal; also, any maneuver in which the aircraft attains every roll attitude

90	0   0 roll A heavier-than-air aircraft that depends principally for its support in flight on the lift generated by one or more rotors. Includes helicopters and gyroplanes.

91	0   0 roll Rotate the aircraft around the longitudinal axis.

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0   0 roll Same as bank; both refer to the tilting of an aircraft about an axis along the direction of flight (left-wing-up/right-wing-up, see animation).   «Rolling» is also an atavistic expression used by old pilots like me (pronounced «Rollin'») to acknowledge «Cleared for take-off,» referring with joy to the action of t [..]

93	0   0 roll Movement of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis, representing a wing-over rolling action.

94	0   0 roll To «roll» on an item means to type «/random 100″, where the server’s random number generator puts out a number between 1 and 100, the most generally accepted «fair» way [..]

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0   0 roll n. — 1. When hit by a Knock-Down, there is the ability in some games to, upon landing on the ground, to roll forward the instant you land rather than falling onto your back. Different games have varying degrees of invulnerability during these Rolls. — n. — 2. In some games, Rolls are a method of moving your character while being invincible during m [..]

96	0   0 roll A random number generated for some purpose.

97	0   0 roll The movement of a stone after it hits another stone off center.

98	0   0 roll [Verb.]  To throw

99	0   0 roll Technique in SNK games and CvS2, where a character rolls forward and gains some limited invincibility. Performed by pressing jab and short (LP+LK). See also: Roll Cancel (RC). Roman Cancel:

100	0   0 roll To toss or throw the dice.

101	0   0 roll A single roll of the dice, or the results of a die roll.

102	0   0 roll The rotational movement of a vehicle about a longitudinal (X) axis.

103	0   0 roll the ship's side to side movement at sea

104	0   0 roll In rougher seas you might feel a little “roll,” the side-to-side movement of the ship.

105	0   0 roll Rotation around an axis in the horizontal (side to side) plane parallel to the direction of travel.

106	0   0 roll The direction a moving stone takes after it hits another stationary stone.

107	0   0 roll 1. Small dough piece (2.0-4.5 oz), smooth and rounded with dough skin side up, pinched seam at bottom 2. To use a rolling pin to roll out a dough piece from center out forming a flat dough piece of ev [..]

108	0   0 roll Move a position to the following delivery date; by closing the current position and taking a new position in a future delivery date.

109	0   0 roll to close an existing option and replace it with an option of a later date or different strike price. Click here to learn more.

110	0   0 roll A side-to-side movement of the ship.

111	0   0 roll role

112	0   0 roll the swaying or rocking motion a ship makes at sea, stabilisers are used aboard most cruise ships to eliminate this motion. While a boat rocks on water, a ship does not, it rolls.

113	0   0 roll Rotation of the robot end-effector in a plane perpendicular to the end of the manipulator arm. See Pitch, and Yaw.

114	0   0 roll Author of path-breaking work on asset pricing including the famous Roll critique. Finance professor at UCLA.

115	0   0 roll Roll or Rolls may refer to:

116	0   0 roll Roll is the third album by Australian alternative country musician Anne McCue. Her first album for Messenger Records The album was released in 2004 and was picked by Bob Harris (BBC, Old Grey Whistl [..]

117	0   0 roll Roll is the third album by Australian alternative country musician Anne McCue. Her first album for Messenger Records The album was released in 2004 and was picked by Bob Harris (BBC, Old Grey Whistl [..]

118	0   0 roll A roll is the most basic and fundamental skill in gymnastics class. There are many variations in the skill. Rolls are similar to flips in the fact that they are a complete rotation of the body, but th [..]

119	0   0 roll Roll is the seventh studio album by Canadian country music group Emerson Drive. It was released on October 30, 2012 via Open Road Recordings. The album’s first single, «She’s My Kind of Crazy,» reache [..]