roll

Meanings

Verb

• 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.
• To turn over and over.
• To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
• To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
• To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• To leave or begin a journey.
• To compete, especially with vigor.
• To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• 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.
• To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• To throw dice.
• To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
• To generate a random number.
• To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
• To travel by sailing.
• To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• To betray secrets.
• To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• To (cause to) film.
• To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• To have a rolling aspect.
• To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• to move and cause an effect on someone
• To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• To utter with an alveolar trill.
• To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
• To create a customized version of.
• To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
• To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

Noun

• The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• Something which rolls.
• A swagger or rolling gait.
• A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on 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.
• The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
• The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .
• A training match for a fighting dog.
• An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
• The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.
• That which is rolled up.
• A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
• An official or public document; a register; a record
• A catalogue or list
• A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
• A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
• A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• Part; office; duty; role.
• A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

Origin

• From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota; partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.
• From Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, role, roule, from Medieval Latin rotulus; as such, it is a role.