roll

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.

   “To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.”

   “The child will roll on the floor.”

   “Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.”

   “And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.”

   “The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.”

2. (ergative)To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

   “To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.”

   “The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.”

3. (transitive)To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.

   “To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.”

4. (ergative, figuratively, sometimes)To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.

   “This river will roll its waters to the ocean.”

   “The years roll on.”

5. (ergative)To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.

   “To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.”

6. (ergative)To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.

   “to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.”

   “The pastry rolls well.”

7. (ergative)To move upon rollers or wheels.

   “We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.”

   “A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.”

8. (intransitive)To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
9. (Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive)To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

   “I want to get there early; let's roll.”

10. (Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive)To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

    “OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!”

11. (Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive)To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

    “Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.”

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.

    “Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul, what different sorrows did within thee roll?”

15. (US, intransitive, slang)To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

    “I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.”

    “"This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.”

16. (intransitive, transitive)To throw dice.

    “If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.”

    “With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.”

17. (intransitive)To throw dice.

    “I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.”

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.

    “We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground, Rolling down to Old Maui”

    “Now we are ready to head for the Horn Way-hey, roll and go!”

22. (transitive)To beat up; to assault.

    “Sometimes I'd roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morning”

    “They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.”

23. (ergative, slang)To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.

    “The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.”

    “He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.”

24. (intransitive, slang)To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).

    “Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.””

    “The crowd was rolling on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. […] He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was rolling.”

25. (ambitransitive)To (cause to) film.

    “The cameras are rolling.”

    “It's time to roll the cameras.”

26. (transitive)To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

    “So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.”

    “Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.”

27. (intransitive)To have a rolling aspect.

    “the hills rolled on”

    “In this part of Warwickshire, the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.”

28. (intransitive)To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

    “The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.”

29. (transitive)To utter with an alveolar trill.

    “Many languages roll their r's.”

30. (US, transitive)To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

    “The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.”

31. (transitive)To create a customized version of.

    “Let's go through and outline how you might roll a kernel for a networked Linux machine you are using as your desktop machine and a file server for a network of Windows and Mac machines.”

    “The clap in "Situation" is a standard Roland TR- 808 clap with a some compression and a bunch of reverb. But we can roll our own version using a soft synth and a have more flexibility, specifically in getting the extra decay for full "smash," as opposed to the short clap on Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.”

    “For the second prototype's example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.”

    “We implement Cube_ as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficiently Swap with lower-dimensional containers is not supported by the boost::multi_array template, so we must roll our own.”

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.

    “Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.”

34. (transitive)To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
35. (intransitive)To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.

noun

1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

   “the roll of a ball”

   “Look at the roll of the waves.”

   “the roll of her eyes”

   “Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.”

2. Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up.

   “a roll of banknotes”

3. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
4. Something which rolls.
5. Something which rolls.

   “to pass rails through the rolls”

6. A swagger or rolling gait.
7. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

   “Hear the roll of cannon.”

   “There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.”

8. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
9. 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.
10. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
11. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

    “Calculate the roll of that aircraft.”

12. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.

    “The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.”

13. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

    “Make your roll.”

    “Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.”

14. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).

    “He is on a roll tonight.”

15. A training match for a fighting dog.
16. (US)An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

    “That was a good roll.”

17. The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

    “She has a bombproof roll.”

18. Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
19. An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
20. A 14-day deployment.
21. That which is rolled up.

    “a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.”

22. 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.”

23. An official or public document; a register; a record.

    “As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower”

24. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.

    “The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.”

    “Several people sued the state after finding out that they'd been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.”

    “The roll and list of that army doth remain.”

25. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

    “a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon”

26. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
27. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

    “Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!”

28. (obsolete)A part; an office; a duty; a role.

    “THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another.”

29. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

    “Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.”

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
2. A surname.