roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊl/
ipa: [ɹəʊɫ]
note: toe-tow merger
ipa: /ɹoʊl/
ipa: [ɹoʊɫ]
ipa: /ɹol/
ipa: /ɹəʉl/
ipa: /ɹəʉɫ/
ipa: /ɹɐʉl/
ipa: [ɹɐʉɫ]
ipa: /ɹɐʉl/
ipa: [ɹɐʉɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /rol/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /rɔ(w)l/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: role
Forms: form: rolls
Etymology: 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 and rotulus.
Senses: examples: text: a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
glosses: That which is rolled up.
examples: text: Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.
ref: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World:
glosses: A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1713 Sir M. Hale, The History of the Common Law of England (posthumously published)
glosses: An official or public document; a register; a record.
examples: text: The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.
text: 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.
text: The roll and list of that army doth remain.
ref: 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:
glosses: A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
examples: text: a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon
glosses: A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
glosses: A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
glosses: A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A part; an office; a duty; a role.
examples: text: Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 594:
glosses: A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from roll (noun)
word: Alaska roll
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word: arctic roll
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word: A roll
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word: asparagus roll
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word: banana roll
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word: banner roll
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word: banqueting roll
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word: banquet roll
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word: B.C. roll
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word: blog roll
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word: bog roll
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word: bread roll
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word: breakfast roll
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word: bridge roll
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word: B roll
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word: bulkie roll
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word: bum roll
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word: cabbage roll
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word: California roll
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word: Cali roll
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word: call roll
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word: camera roll
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word: caterpillar roll
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word: cheese roll
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word: chicken roll
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word: cinnamon roll
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word: coffee roll
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word: counter-roll
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word: court roll
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word: crescent roll
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word: crunchy roll
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word: dandy roll
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word: dinner roll
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word: dog roll
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word: dragon roll
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word: dynamite roll
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word: enrol
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word: enroll
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word: flash roll
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word: French roll
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word: gut roll
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word: Hawaiian roll
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word: honor roll
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word: honour roll
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word: jam roll
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word: jelly roll
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word: Kaiser roll
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word: kitchen roll
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word: knee roll
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word: knife roll
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word: loo roll
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word: mango roll
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word: manorial roll
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word: Michigan roll
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word: milk roll
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word: morning roll
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word: muster roll
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word: no-roll
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word: nut roll
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word: off-roll
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word: onion roll
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word: Parker House roll
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word: pepperoni roll
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word: Philadelphia roll
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word: Philly roll
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word: piano roll
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word: pipe roll
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word: planishing roll
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word: poor's roll
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word: pork roll
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word: Portuguese roll
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word: prego roll
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word: printing roll
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word: ragman roll
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word: rainbow roll
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word: rent roll
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word: roll call
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word: roll container
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word: roll drop
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word: roll latten
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word: roll mill
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word: roll number
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word: roll of arms
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word: sand-roll
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word: sausage roll
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word: Seattle roll
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word: size roll
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word: spider roll
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word: sponge roll
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word: spring roll
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word: summer roll
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word: sushi roll
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word: Swiss roll
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word: take roll
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word: take the roll
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word: Texas roll
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word: toilet roll
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word: torpedo roll
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word: Vienna roll
Related terms: Rolls
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