roll

Significat

Verb

1. 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.
2. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
3. To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
5. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
6. To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
7. To move upon rollers or wheels.
8. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
9. (colloquial) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
10. (colloquial) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
11. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
12. 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.
13. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
14. (slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
15. To throw dice.
16. To throw dice.
17. To throw dice.
18. To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
19. To travel by sailing.
20. To beat up; to assault.
21. (slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
22. (slang) To betray secrets.
23. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
24. To (cause to) film.
25. To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
26. To have a rolling aspect.
27. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
28. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
29. to move and cause an effect on someone
30. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
31. To utter with an alveolar trill.
32. To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
33. To create a customized version of.
34. To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
35. To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

Noun

1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
3. Something which rolls.
4. Something which rolls.
5. A swagger or rolling gait.
6. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
8. 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.
9. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
10. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
11. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
12. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
13. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
14. A training match for a fighting dog.
15. An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
16. The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
17. Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.

Noun

1. That which is rolled up.
2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
3. An official or public document; a register; a record.
4. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
8. (obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.
9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹəʊl/

Etimologia

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.