Definitions of roll in various dictionaries:
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rotary motion of an object around its own axis
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a list of names
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a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
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photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
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a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
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small rounded bread either plain or sweet
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a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
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the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
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a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
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anything rolled up in cylindrical form
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the act of throwing dice
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walking with a swaying gait
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a flight maneuver
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the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
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move by turning over or rotating
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move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
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occur in soft rounded shapes
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flatten or spread with a roller
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emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged re verb erating sound
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arrange or or coil around
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begin operating or running
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shape by rolling
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execute a roll, in tumbling
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sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
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move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
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move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
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move, rock, or sway from side to side
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cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
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pro noun ce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
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boil vigorously
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take the shape of a roll or cylinder
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show certain properties when being rolled
To move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.
To travel or be moved on wheels or rollers: rolled down the sidewalk on their scooters.
To travel around; wander: roll from town to town.
To travel or be carried in a vehicle.
To be carried on a stream: The logs rolled down the cascading river.
To start to move or operate: The press wouldn’t roll.
To work or succeed in a sustained way; gain momentum: The political campaign finally began to roll.
To go by; elapse: The days rolled along.
To recur: Summer has rolled around again.
To move in a periodic revolution, as a planet in its orbit.
To turn over and over: The puppy rolled in the mud.
To shift the gaze usually quickly and continually: Her eyes rolled with fright.
To turn around or revolve on or as if on an axis.
To move or advance with a rising and falling motion; undulate: The waves rolled toward shore.
To extend or appear to extend in gentle rises and falls: The dunes roll to the sea.
To move or rock from side to side: The ship pitched and rolled in heavy seas.
To walk with a swaying, unsteady motion.
To take the shape of a ball or cylinder: Yarn rolls easily.
To become flattened by or as if by pressure applied by a roller.
To make a deep, prolonged, surging sound: Thunder rolled in the distance.
To make a sustained, trilling sound, as certain birds do.
To beat a drum in a continuous series of short blows.
To pour or flow in or as if in a continual stream: tourists rolling into the city.
To enjoy ample amounts: rolled in the money.
To cause to move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.
To move or push along on wheels or rollers: rolled the plane out of the hangar.
To impel or send onward in a steady, swelling motion: The sea rolls its waves onto the sand.
To impart a swaying, rocking motion to: Heavy seas rolled the ship.
To turn around or partly turn around; rotate: rolled his head toward the door.
To cause to begin moving or operating: roll the cameras; roll the presses.
To extend or lay out: rolled out a long rope.
To pro noun ce or utter with a trill: You must roll your r’s in Spanish.
To utter or emit in full, swelling tones.
To beat (a drum) with a continuous series of short blows.
To wrap (something) round and round upon itself or around something else: roll up a poster.
To envelop or enfold in a covering: roll dirty laundry in a sheet.
To make by shaping into a ball or cylinder: roll a cigarette.
To spread, compress, or flatten by applying pressure with a roller: roll pastry dough.
To apply ink to (type) with a roller or rollers.
To throw (dice), as in craps.
To rob (a drunken, sleeping, or otherwise helpless person).
The act or an instance of rolling.
Something rolled up: a roll of tape.
A quantity, as of cloth or wallpaper, rolled into a cylinder and often considered as a unit of measure.
A piece of parchment or paper that may be or is rolled up; a scroll.
A register or a catalogue.
A list of names of persons belonging to a group.
A mass in cylindrical or rounded form: a roll of tobacco.
A small rounded portion of bread.
A portion of food shaped like a tube with a filling.
A rolling, swaying, or rocking motion.
A gentle swell or undulation of a surface: the roll of the plains.
A deep re verb eration or rumble: the roll of thunder.
A rapid succession of short sounds: the roll of a drum.
A trill: the roll of his r’s.
A resonant, rhythmical flow of words.
A roller, especially a cylinder on which to roll something up or with which to flatten something.
A maneuver in which an airplane makes a single complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.
Money, especially a wad of paper money.
To reduce (prices or wages, for example) to a previous lower level.
To cause to turn back or retreat.
To get out of bed.
To execute a rollout.
To defer or postpone payment of (an obligation).
To renegotiate the terms of (a financial deal).
To reinvest (funds from a maturing security) into a similar security.
To arrive in a vehicle.
Sexual intercourse.
verb - to move along by repeatedly turning over