Meaning of roll | Babel Free

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1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
3. To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface
4. That which is rolled up.
5. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
6. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
7. A surname.
8. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over
9. Undergoing or experiencing sustained, even increasing good fortune or success: "The stock market's on a roll" (Karen Pennar).
10. An official or public document; a register; a record.
11. Something which rolls.
12. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
13. To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up
14. Sexual intercourse.
15. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
16. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
17. To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion
18. To cast dice, especially in craps.
19. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
20. A swagger or rolling gait.
21. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out
22. To cope with and withstand adversity, especially by being flexible.
23. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
24. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
25. To leave one's bed:arise, get up, pile, rise.
26. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
27. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
28. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number:accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, pile up.
29. A part; an office; a duty; a role.
    obsolete
30. A series, as of names or words, printed or written down:catalog, list, register, roster, schedule.
31. 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.
32. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
33. (of a landscape) having low hills and shallow valleys, without steep slopes. deinend ذو تِلال مُنْخَفِضَه بدون مُنْحَدَرات хълмист ondulado vlnitý weich dahinziehen bølgende; kuperet κυματιστός, λοφώδηςondulante laineline هموار و صاف kumpuileva onduleux מִתגַלגֵל उठती-गिरती लहरदार, बहुत धनी सम्पन्न, घूमता koji se valja (kotrlja, ori, njiše,..) dimbes-dombos pemandangan berbukit-bukit rendah öldóttur ondulato 起伏している 완만한 기복이 있는 banguotas paugurains kawasan tidak curam golvendkupert, bølgendefal...
34. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
35. a skate with wheels instead of a blade. a pair of roller-skates. rolskaats حِذاء التَّزَلُّج ролкови кънки patins kolečková brusle der Rollschuh rulleskøjte τροχοπέδιλο, πατίνι patín sobre ruedas rulluisk کفش چرخک دار rullaluistin patin à roulettes גַלגִלִיוֹת पहिये का जूता koturaljka, rolšua görkorcsolya sepatu roda rúlluskauti pattino a rotelle ローラースケート 롤러 스케이트 riedutis skrituļslida kasut roda rolschaatsrulleskøyte wrotka څرخ لرونکی اسکیټ patim role, patine cu rotile ролики kolieskové korču...
36. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
37. to move on roller-skates. You shouldn't roller-skate on the pavement. rolskaats يَسير بِحِذاء التَّزَلُّج карам ролкови кънки andar de patins jezdit na kolečkových bruslích rollschuhlaufen løbe på rulleskøjter κάνω πατίνι patinar sobre ruedas rulluiskudega sõitma اسکیت بازی کردن luistella rullaluistimilla faire du patin à roulettes לְהִתגַלגֵל पहिएदार स्केट गाड़ी koturati se görkorcsolyázik bersepatu roda renna sér á rúlluskautum (pattinare con i pattini a rotelle) ローラースケートをする 롤러 스케이트를 타다 važ...
38. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
39. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
40. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
41. A training match for a fighting dog.
42. An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
    US
43. The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
44. Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
45. An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
46. A 14-day deployment.

Equivalents

Examples

“the roll of a ball”

“Look at the roll of the waves.”

“the roll of her eyes”

“Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.”

“to pass rails through the rolls”

“Hear the roll of cannon.”

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

“Calculate the roll of that aircraft.”

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

“Make your roll.”

“Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.”

“He is on a roll tonight.”

“That was a good roll.”

“She has a bombproof roll.”

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

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

“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”

“The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.”

“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.”

“The roll and list of that army doth remain.”

“a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon”

“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.”

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

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