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Roll   /roʊl/   Listen
Roll

verb
(past & past part. rolled; pres. part. rolling)
1.
Move by turning over or rotating.  Synonym: turn over.  "Turn over on your left side"
2.
Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.  Synonym: wheel.
3.
Occur in soft rounded shapes.  Synonym: undulate.
4.
Flatten or spread with a roller.  Synonym: roll out.
5.
Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.  "Rolling drums"
6.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"
7.
Begin operating or running.  "The presses are already rolling"
8.
Shape by rolling.
9.
Execute a roll, in tumbling.
10.
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.  Synonyms: hustle, pluck.
11.
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.  Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave.  "The waves rolled towards the beach"
12.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "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"
13.
Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
14.
Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.  Synonym: revolve.  "They rolled their eyes at his words"
15.
Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
16.
Boil vigorously.  Synonym: seethe.  "The water rolled"
17.
Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.  "Yarn rolls well"
18.
Show certain properties when being rolled.  Synonym: roll up.  "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"
noun
1.
Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.  Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation.
2.
A list of names.  Synonym: roster.
3.
A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.  Synonyms: roller, rolling wave.
4.
Photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light.
5.
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals).  Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl.
6.
A roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.).  Synonym: bankroll.
7.
Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.  Synonym: bun.
8.
A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).  Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling.
9.
The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously.  Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle.
10.
A document that can be rolled up (as for storage).  Synonym: scroll.
11.
Anything rolled up in cylindrical form.
12.
The act of throwing dice.  Synonym: cast.
13.
Walking with a swaying gait.
14.
A flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.
15.
The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling).  Synonym: bowl.



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"Roll" Quotes from Famous Books



... time the prints were held up by a storm I bought a roll of wrapping paper at Randall's store, cut it into strips, and got the ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl
... salt and alum; three gills of water, and one drachm of sulphuric acid. This should be thickened with wheat bran or flour, and should be allowed to dry on the skin, after which it should be scraped off with a spoon. Next, take the skin from the board, roll it with the fur inside, and draw it quickly backward and forward, over a smooth peg, or through an iron ring. The skin should then be unfolded and rolled again the opposite way, and the operation repeated until the pelt is quite soft and flexible. ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson
... telegraph poles, were the only remaining signs of man's lordship of earth, as far as his eyes could see. It was upon this sight, when the snow clouds had fled, that he had seen a scarlet sun come up; over the same scene he had watched it roll its golden chariot all day, and, tinging the same unbroken drifts, it had sunk scarlet again in the far southwest. He had not been far from his house, and no one, in train, or sleigh, or on snow-shoes, had happened ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... HER (not you) either my Lancashire seat or The Lawn in Hertfordshire, and settle upon her a thousand pounds a year penny-rents; to show her, that we are not a family to take base advantages: and you may have writings drawn, and settle as you will.—Honest Pritchard has the rent-roll of both these estates; and as he has been a good old servant, I recommend him to your lady's favour. I have already consulted him: he will tell you what is best for you, and most ...
— Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) - History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... point, and looked down on Talland Bay. By the side of the path, on a grass plateau, a stone war-cross reared grey against a blue sky, with its roll of names, and its comment—"True love by life, true ...
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