roll

Meaning

Verb

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

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. (US) 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.
18. An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.

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.

Synonyms

coil

list

scroll

📜

roll up

register

bundle

rub

sway

turn over

spin

bun

wind

wallow

rotate

rock

🪨

rolling

pitch

twist

turn

undulate

tumble

reel

trundle

wheel

🛞

wrap

curl

whirl

twine

rumble

fold

roller

revolve

shake

🫨

roster

roll around

flounder

cast

thunder

🌩️

writhe

coil up

run

bread roll

seethe

bowl

wave

👋

flow

bolt

remove

swing

cylinder

Translations

rouler

rollen

rodar

rotolare

enrouler

rolar

rol

rollen

rouleau

rotolo

enrollar

rollo

Rolle

oprollen

girare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹəʊl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rollen

Inherited from Middle English: rolle

In summary

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.