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 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.
Senses: examples: text: the roll of a ball
text: Look at the roll of the waves.
text: the roll of her eyes
text: 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.
ref: 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
glosses: The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
glosses: A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
glosses: Something which rolls.
A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
examples: text: to pass rails through the rolls
glosses: Something which rolls.
One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
glosses: A swagger or rolling gait.
examples: text: Hear the roll of cannon.
text: There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.
glosses: A heavy, reverberatory sound.
glosses: The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: 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.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
examples: text: Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
coordinate_terms: yaw
pitch
glosses: The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
examples: text: The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.
glosses: An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
examples: text: Make your roll.
text: Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
glosses: The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
examples: text: He is on a roll tonight.
glosses: A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
glosses: A training match for a fighting dog.
examples: text: That was a good roll.
glosses: An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
examples: text: She has a bombproof roll.
glosses: The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from roll (noun)
word: aileron roll
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word: anti-roll bar
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word: backwards roll
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word: barrel roll
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word: blue roll
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word: cannon roll
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word: chin roll
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word: combat roll
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word: dead roll
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word: death roll
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word: dice roll
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word: drum roll
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word: Dutch roll
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word: Easter egg roll
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word: finger roll
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word: forward roll
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word: forwards roll
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word: Goldman roll
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word: Granby roll
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word: hand roll
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word: head roll
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word: kathi roll
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word: kati roll
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word: kayak roll
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word: landing roll
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word: lobster roll
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word: parachute roll
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word: pizza roll
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word: preroll
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word: roll bar
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word: roll cage
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word: rollcage
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word: roll cloud
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word: roll cumulus
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word: roll hoop
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word: roll of snow
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word: roll of the dice
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word: rollover
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word: roll-playing
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word: roll rate
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word: roll step
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word: roll-top
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word: roll-to-roll
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word: rudder roll
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word: slow one's roll
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word: snap roll
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word: social roll
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word: soul roll
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word: truck roll
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word: victory roll
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word: weather roll
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word: Western roll