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

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

verb-intransitive. To travel around; wander: roll from town to town.

verb-intransitive. To travel or be carried in a vehicle.

verb-intransitive. To be carried on a stream: The logs rolled down the cascading river.

verb-intransitive. To start to move or operate: The press wouldn't roll.

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

verb-intransitive. To go by; elapse: The days rolled along.

verb-intransitive. To recur. Often used with around: Summer has rolled around again.

verb-intransitive. To move in a periodic revolution, as a planet in its orbit.

verb-intransitive. To turn over and over: The puppy rolled in the mud.

verb-intransitive. To shift the gaze usually quickly and continually: The child's eyes rolled with fright.

verb-intransitive. To turn around or revolve on or as if on an axis.

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

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

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

verb-intransitive. To walk with a swaying, unsteady motion.

verb-intransitive. To take the shape of a ball or cylinder: Yarn rolls easily.

verb-intransitive. To become flattened by or as if by pressure applied by a roller.

verb-intransitive. To make a deep, prolonged, surging sound: Thunder rolled in the distance.

verb-intransitive. To make a sustained trilling sound, as certain birds do.

verb-intransitive. To beat a drum in a continuous series of short blows.

verb-intransitive. To pour or flow in or as if in a continual stream: tourists rolling into the city.

verb-intransitive. To enjoy ample amounts: rolled in the money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

v. To wrap (something) round and round upon itself or around something else: roll up a poster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

n. The act or an instance of rolling.

n. Something rolled up: a roll of tape.

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

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

n. A register or a catalogue.

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

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

n. A small rounded portion of bread.

n. A portion of food shaped like a tube with a filling.

n. A rolling, swaying, or rocking motion.

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

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

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

n. A trill: the roll of his r's.

n. A resonant, rhythmical flow of words.

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

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

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

phrasal-verb. roll back To reduce (prices or wages, for example) to a previous lower level.

phrasal-verb. roll back To cause to turn back or retreat.

phrasal-verb. roll out To get out of bed.

phrasal-verb. roll out Football To execute a rollout.

phrasal-verb. roll over To defer or postpone payment of (an obligation).

phrasal-verb. roll over To renegotiate the terms of (a financial deal).

phrasal-verb. roll over To reinvest (funds from a maturing security or from a tax-deferred account) into a similar security or account.

phrasal-verb. roll up To arrive in a vehicle.

phrasal-verb. roll up To accumulate; amass: rolled up quite a fortune.

idiom. on a roll Informal Undergoing or experiencing sustained, even increasing good fortune or success: "The stock market's on a roll” ( Karen Pennar).

idiom. roll in the hay Slang Sexual intercourse.

idiom. roll the bones Games To cast dice, especially in craps.

idiom. roll with the punches Slang To cope with and withstand adversity, especially by being flexible.

v. 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.

v. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

v. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up.

v. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

v. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out.

v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.

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

v. To leave or begin a journey.

v. To compete, especially with vigor.

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

v. 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.

v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

v. To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

v. To throw dice.

v. To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

v. To have a rolling aspect

v. To create a new character in a role-playing game.

v. To generate a random number.

v. To turn over and over.

v. To tumble in gymnastics.

v. when a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.

v. To beat up.

v. To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

v. To betray secrets.

v. To act.

v. To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy.

n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.

n. That which rolls; a roller

n. Specifically, a heavy cylinder used to break clods.

n. Specifically, 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.

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

n. Specifically, a document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

n. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

n. Specifically, a quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

n. Specifically, A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

n. 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.

n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

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

n. Part; office; duty; rôle.

n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

n. the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis

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

n. The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.

v. 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.

v. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over

v. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up.

v. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

v. To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out

v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers

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

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

v. 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.

v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

verb-intransitive. To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over

verb-intransitive. To move on wheels.

verb-intransitive. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball

verb-intransitive. To fall or tumble; -- with over.

verb-intransitive. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution

verb-intransitive. To turn; to move circularly.

verb-intransitive. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

verb-intransitive. To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; ; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

verb-intransitive. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow.

verb-intransitive. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin.

verb-intransitive. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

verb-intransitive. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.

n. That which rolls; a roller.

n. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

n. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

n. That which is rolled up

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

n. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

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

n. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

n. 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.

n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

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

n. Part; office; duty; rôle.

To move like a carriage-wheel; move along a surface without slipping by perpetually turning over the foremost point of contact as an instantaneous axis: as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

To run or travel on wheels.

To revolve; perform a periodical revolution.

To turn; have a rotatory motion, generally reciprocating and irregular, especially in lateral directions: as, the ship rolls (that is, turns back and forth about a longitudinal axis).

To move like waves or billows; also, to move like a considerable body of water, as a river.

To fluctuate; move tumultuously.

To tumble or fall over and over.

To emit a deep prolonged sound, like the roll of a ball or the continuous beating of a drum.

To enroll one's self; be enrolled.

To trill: said of certain singing birds.

To lend itself to being coiled up in a cylindrical form: as, cloth that rolls well.

To ramble; wander abroad; gad about. Compare roil.

To cause to rotate; whirl or wheel.

To cause to move like a carriage-wheel; cause to move over a surface without sliding, by perpetually turning over the foremost point of contact: as, to roll a cask or a ball.

To turn over in one's thoughts; revolve; consider again and again.

To wrap round and round an axis, so as to bring into a compact cylindrical form: as, to roll a piece of cloth; to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll tobacco.

To bind or infold in a bandage or wrapper; inwrap.

To press or level with a roller; spread out with a roller or rolling-pin: as, to roll a field; to roll pie-crust.

To drive or impel forward with a sweeping, easy motion, as of rolling.

To give expression to or emit in a prolonged deep sound.

To utter with vibration of the tongue; trill.

In printing, to make (paper) smooth by passing it under calendering rollers.

To turn over by degrees, as a whale when cutting in.

In drum-playing, to beat with rapid blows so as to produce a continuous sound.

Synonyms Swing, etc. See rock, transitive verb

n. A cylinder formed by winding something round and round; that which is rolled up: as, a roll of wool; a roll of paper.

n. Specifically— A document of paper, parchment, or the like which is or may be rolled up; hence, an official document; a list; a register; a catalogue; a record: as, a muster-roll; a class-roll; a court-roll.

n. A long piece of cloth, paper, or the like, usually of uniform width throughout, and rolled upon either a round stick or a thin board, or upon itself merely, as the most convenient form of making a package. See roller, 2.

n. In cookery, something rolled up: as, a veal roll; a jelly roll. Specifically— A small cake of bread rolled or doubled on itself before baking: as, a French roll. Same as roly-poly, 2.

n. A cylindrical twist of tobacco

n. In carding, a slender, slightly compacted cylinder or sliver of carded wool, delivered from hand-cards or from the doffing-cylinder of a carding-machine. Such rolls were formerly much used in the hand-spinning of wool. For machine-spinning the sliver is extended into a continuous roving.

n. Part of the head-dress of a woman, a rounded cushion or mass of hair usually laid above the forehead, especially in the sixteenth century.

n. A revolving cylinder employed in any manner to operate upon a material, as in forming metals into bars, plates, or sheets, smoothing the surfaces of textures, as in paper-making, laundering, etc., or in comminuting substances, as in grinding grain, crushing ores, etc.

n. One of a pair of cylinders in a rolling-mill, between which metals are passed to form them into bars, plates, or sheets. See rolling-mill

n. In engraving, the cylindrical die of a transferring-press

n. In metallurgy, one of a pair of hard and strong metallic cylinders between which ores are crushed.

n. In paper-making, one of the cylinders of a calender; also, the cylinder of a pulping-engine. See calender, 1, and pulp-engine.

n. In high milling, one of a pair of metal cylinders through a series of which pairs grain is passed for successively crushing it to the requisite fineness. See high milling, under milling.

n. In calico-printing, a cylinder of a calico-printing machine.

n. The impression-cylinder of a printing-machine.

n. In a great variety of machines, one of the cylinders over which an endless apron extends, and upon which it is moved, as in the feed-aprons of carding-machines, pickers for opening cotton as taken from the bale, machines for manufacturing shoddy from rags, etc.

n. Either of a pair of plain or fluted cylinders between which material is passed to feed it into a machine, as in feeding rags to a shoddy-machine, paper to printing-presses, calico to calico-printing machines, etc. Such rolls are also called feed-rolls.

n. A hand-tool used by bookbinders for embossing book-covers, or forming thereon embossed gilded lines. It consists of either a plain or an embossed cylinder with a handle adapted to rest (when in use) against the shoulder of the workman. The roller is heated for use in embossing.

n. In the manufacture of plate-glass, a heavy metallic cylinder which spreads the “metal” on the table, and which, being supported on ways on opposite sides of the table, produces a sheet or plate of uniform thickness.

n. In building: A rounded strip fastened upon and extending along the ridge of a roof.

n. In a leaden roof, one of a number of rounded strips placed under the lead at intervals, whereby crawling of the metal through alternate expansion and contraction is prevented.

n. The act of rolling, or the state of being rolled; a rotatory movement: as, the roll of a ball; the roll of a ship.

n. A deep, prolonged, or sustained sound: as, the roll of thunder. Also rolling.

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