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The Meaning of roll
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(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
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(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
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(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
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(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
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(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
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(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
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(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
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(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
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(n.) 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 suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
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(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
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(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
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(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
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(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
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(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
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(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
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(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
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(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
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(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
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(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
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(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
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(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
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(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
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(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
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(v.) That which rolls; a roller.
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(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
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(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
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(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
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(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
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(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
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(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
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(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
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(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
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(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
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(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
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(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
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(v.) Part; office; duty; role.
Synonyms
axial rotation
,
axial motion
,
roster
,
roller
,
rolling wave
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coil
,
whorl
,
curl
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curlicue
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ringlet
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gyre
,
scroll
,
bankroll
,
bun
,
peal
,
pealing
,
rolling
,
paradiddle
,
drum roll
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scroll
,
cast
,
bowl
,
turn over
,
wheel
,
undulate
,
roll out
,
wind
,
wrap
,
twine
,
hustle
,
pluck
,
undulate
,
flap
,
wave
,
wander
,
swan
,
stray
,
tramp
,
roam
,
cast
,
ramble
,
rove
,
range
,
drift
,
vagabond
,
revolve
,
seethe
,
roll up
Antonyms
unwind
Homophones
roehl
,
roell
,
roelle
,
rohl
,
rol
,
role
,
rolle
Rhymes
amphibole
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anatole
,
atoll
,
bankroll
,
blowhole
,
boal
,
boehl
,
bohl
,
bole
,
boll
,
bowl
,
buol
,
buttonhole
,
cajole
,
casserole
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coale
,
cole
,
colle
,
console
,
control
,
cubbyhole
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decontrol
,
devaul
,
dhole
,
dipole
,
doell
,
dole
,
droll
,
ecole
,
enroll
,
espanol
,
extol
,
fishbowl
,
flagpole
,
foal
,
foale
,
fohl
,
foxhole
,
glycerol
,
glycol
,
goal
,
gohl
,
groll
,
hoel
,
hohl
,
hole
,
interpol
,
keyhole
,
knoell
,
knoll
,
koehl
,
koelle
,
kohl
,
kol
,
kole
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lodgepole
,
loophole
,
madole
,
manhole
,
mcdole
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metropol
,
mohl
,
mole
,
monopole
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nicole
,
nicolle
,
nohl
,
nole
,
noll
,
ohl
,
ole
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oriole
,
pajole
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parole
,
patrol
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payroll
,
pfohl
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pigeonhole
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pinhole
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pistole
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poehl
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pohl
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pole
,
poll
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pothole
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redpoll
,
rock-and-roll
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roehl
,
roell
,
roelle
,
rohl
,
rol
,
role
,
rolle
,
schaul
,
scroll
,
self-control
,
seoul
,
shoal
,
shole
,
sinkhole
,
skoal
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sohl
,
sole
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soul
,
sowle
,
stole
,
stoll
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strohl
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strole
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stroll
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tadpole
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thoele
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thole
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toal
,
toelle
,
tole
,
toll
,
troll
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voell
,
walpole
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whole
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woehl
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wohl