roll
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.
Inflected forms:
form: rolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: rollest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: rolledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rolleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: roll
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: rolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
The child will roll on the floor.
Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.
The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.
gloss: To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
gloss: To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.
gloss: To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
figuratively
sometimes
examples: This river will roll its waters to the ocean.
The years roll on.
gloss: To pour or trickle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Drops of sweat rolled down his face.
gloss: To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.
gloss: To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.
The pastry rolls well.
gloss: To move upon rollers or wheels.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
gloss: To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
intransitive
examples: I want to get there early; let's roll.
gloss: To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
intransitive
examples: OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!
gloss: To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
intransitive
examples: Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.
gloss: To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul,
what different sorrows did within thee roll?
gloss: To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
slang
examples: I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.
"This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
gloss: To throw dice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.
With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.
gloss: To throw dice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.
gloss: To throw dice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
pos: verb
gloss: To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
Rolling down to Old Maui
Now we are ready to head for the Horn
Way-hey, roll and go!
gloss: To beat up; to assault.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sometimes I'd roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morning
They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.
gloss: To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
slang
examples: The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.
He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.
gloss: To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”
The crowd was rolling on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. […] He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was rolling.
a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN
So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]
gloss: To (cause to) film.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The cameras are rolling.
It's time to roll the cameras.
gloss: To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.
Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.
gloss: To have a rolling aspect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the hills rolled on
In this part of Warwickshire, the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.
gloss: To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
gloss: To utter with an alveolar trill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Many languages roll their r's.
gloss: To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.
gloss: To create a customized version of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's go through and outline how you might roll a kernel for a networked Linux machine you are using as your desktop machine and a file server for a network of Windows and Mac machines.
The clap in "Situation" is a standard Roland TR- 808 clap with a some compression and a bunch of reverb. But we can roll our own version using a soft synth and a have more flexibility, specifically in getting the extra decay for full "smash," as opposed to the short clap on Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.
For the second prototype's example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.
We implement Cube_ as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficiently Swap with lower-dimensional containers is not supported by the boost::multi_array template, so we must roll our own.
gloss: To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.
gloss: To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up.
pos: noun
examples: a roll of banknotes
gloss: A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which rolls.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which rolls.
pos: noun
examples: to pass rails through the rolls
gloss: A swagger or rolling gait.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy, reverberatory sound.
pos: noun
examples: Hear the roll of cannon.
There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.
gloss: The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
pos: noun
gloss: The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
pos: noun
examples: Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
gloss: An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
pos: noun
examples: The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.
gloss: The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
pos: noun
examples: Make your roll.
Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
gloss: A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
pos: noun
examples: He is on a roll tonight.
gloss: A training match for a fighting dog.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: That was a good roll.
gloss: The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
pos: noun
examples: She has a bombproof roll.
gloss: Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
pos: noun
gloss: An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
pos: noun
gloss: A 14-day deployment.
pos: noun
Derived words: aileron roll
antiroll
anti-roll bar
backroll
backwards roll
barrel roll
beadroll
bedroll
blue roll
bookroll
borrow roll
brushroll
cannon roll
checkroll
chin roll
combat roll
dead roll
death roll
dice roll
drum roll
duckroll
Dutch roll
Easter egg roll
egg roll
faceroll
finger roll
forward roll
forwards roll
freeroll
Goldman roll
Granby roll
hand roll
handroll
head roll
kathi roll
kati roll
kayak roll
landing roll
leafroll
lobster roll
midroll
misroll
mortgage roll
neckroll
parachute roll
passroll
payroll
pizza roll
postroll
preroll
reroll
roll bar
roll cage
rollcage
roll cloud
roll cumulus
roll hoop
roll of honour
roll of snow
roll of the dice
rollover
roll-playing
roll rate
rollsign
roll step
roll-top
roll-to-roll
rudder roll
slow one's roll
snap roll
social roll
soul roll
truck roll
victory roll
weather roll
Western roll
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: rol
lang: Arabic
word: فَرَدَ
roman: farada
lang: Arabic
word: رَقَّ
roman: raqqa
lang: Breton
word: rollañ
lang: Bulgarian
word: валцувам
roman: valcuvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擀
roman: gǎn
lang: Czech
word: válet
lang: Czech
word: válcovat
lang: Dutch
word: walsen
lang: Dutch
word: pletwalsen
lang: Finnish
word: tasoittaa
lang: Finnish
word: levittää
lang: Finnish
word: jyrätä
lang: Finnish
word: kaulita
lang: Finnish
word: valssata
lang: French
word: rouler
lang: French
word: laminer
lang: French
word: niveler
lang: French
word: aplatir
lang: German
word: walzen
lang: German
word: ausrollen
lang: Māori
word: takapapa
lang: Portuguese
word: amassar
lang: Russian
word: ката́ть
roman: katátʹ
lang: Russian
word: раска́тывать
roman: raskátyvatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: allanar
lang: Swedish
word: valsa
lang: Swedish
word: kavla
lang: Swedish
word: kavla ut
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لوغلامق
roman: loğlamak
lang: Afrikaans
word: rol
lang: Afrikaans
word: stoot
lang: Azerbaijani
word: diyirlənmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: diyirləmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: diyirlətmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: търкалям
roman: tǎrkaljam
lang: Dutch
word: rollen
lang: Finnish
word: rullata
lang: German
word: rollen
lang: Polish
word: turlać
lang: Polish
word: poturlać
lang: Portuguese
word: rolar
lang: Russian
word: кати́ть
roman: katítʹ
lang: Russian
word: ката́ть
roman: katátʹ
lang: Russian
word: кати́ться
roman: katítʹsja
lang: Russian
word: ката́ться
roman: katátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: rodar
lang: Spanish
word: rular
lang: Spanish
word: rolear
lang: Swedish
word: rulla
lang: Ukrainian
word: коти́ти
roman: kotýty
lang: Catalan
word: brandar
lang: Catalan
word: balancejar
lang: Finnish
word: rullata
lang: Finnish
word: kallistua
lang: Finnish
word: keinua
lang: French
word: rouler
lang: Māori
word: takataka
lang: Māori
word: tātaka
lang: Spanish
word: balancear
lang: Spanish
word: alabear
lang: Bulgarian
word: ролка
roman: rolka
lang: Dutch
word: rol
lang: Esperanto
word: rulaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: rulla
lang: Finnish
word: kaulin
lang: French
word: rouleau
lang: German
word: Roller
lang: Hindi
word: गोला
roman: golā
lang: Italian
word: rotolo
lang: Portuguese
word: rolo
lang: Russian
word: ро́лик
roman: rólik
lang: Russian
word: вал
roman: val
lang: Russian
word: ва́лик
roman: válik
lang: Spanish
word: rodeador
lang: Spanish
word: rodeadora
lang: Swedish
word: rulle
lang: Swedish
word: kavle
lang: Ukrainian
word: ро́лик
roman: rólyk