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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[noun] a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
[noun] walking with a rolling gait
[noun] the act of throwing dice
[noun] anything rolled up in cylindrical form
[noun] photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
[noun] a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
[noun] a list of names; "his name was struck off the rolls"
[noun] a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
[noun] the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
[noun] a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
[noun] rotary motion of an object around its own axis; "wheels in axial rotation"
[noun] small rounded bread either plain or sweet
[noun] a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag"
[noun] a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
[verb] execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
[verb] shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette"
[verb] boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"
[verb] pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ "She rolls her r's".
[verb] flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper"
[verb] wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
[verb] begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
[verb] to rotate or cause to rotate; "The child rolled down the hill"; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"; "turn over to your left side"; "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs outward"
[verb] move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
[verb] emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
[verb] sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and esp. underhanded activity
[verb] occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"
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\Roll\, v. i. 1. 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. And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. --Shak. 2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. ``The rolling chair.'' --Dryden. 3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well. 4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice. 5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away. 6. To turn; to move circularly. And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. --Dryden. 7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. What different sorrows did within thee roll. --Prior. 8. 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. Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. --Pope. 9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls. 10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well. 11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. 12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. {To roll about}, to gad abroad. [Obs.] Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. --Chaucer.
\Roll\, n. [F. r[^o]le a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus ? little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See {Roll}, v., and cf. {R[^o]le}, {Rouleau}, {Roulette}.] 1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves. 2. That which rolls; a roller. Specifically:
(a) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. --Mortimer.
(b) 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. 3. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. Specifically:
(a) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. --Prior.
(b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. --Sir M. Hale. The roll and list of that army doth remain. --Sir J. Davies.
(c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
(d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. 4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. 5. (Naut.) 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. 6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder. 7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. 8. Part; office; duty; r[^o]le. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. {Long roll} (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line. {Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}. {Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers. {Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body. {To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present. Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See {List}.
Synonyms for roll
axial motion, axial rotation, bankroll, bun, cast, coil, curl, curlicue, drum roll, gyre, hustle, paradiddle, peal, pealing, pluck, revolve, ringlet, roll out, roller, rolling, rolling wave, roster, scroll, scroll, seethe, turn over, twine, undulate, wheel, whorl, wind, wrap
Antonyms: unroll, unwind, wind off
See also: clover-leaf roll | coffee roll | corolla | crescent roll | displace | form | function | funds | hamburger bun | holograph | mill | moving ridge | muster roll | Parker House roll | photographic film | reel | roll down | roll over | roll up | say | sound | throw | tumble | waiting list | wallow |
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Let's analyse "roll" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and One vowel. 25% of vowels is 13.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: LLOR. Average typing speed for these characters is 1090 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
roll: 6 = 6, reduced: 6 . and the final result is Six. |
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