roll
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹəʊl/, [ɹɒʊɫ], (doll–dole merger) /ɹɒl/Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): (toe-tow merger) /ɹoʊl/, [ɹoʊɫ], (dialectal) /ɹol/Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹəʉl/, /ɹəʉɫ/, /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹɐʉɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹɐʉɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɾol/Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA(key): /ɾoul/Category:English 2-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- (Indic) IPA(key): /rol/, (without the toe–tow merger) /rɔ(w)l/Category:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ROLLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROLL
- Rhymes: -əʊlCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊl#ROLLCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊl/1 syllable#ROLL
- Homophone: role (toe–tow merger)Category:English terms with homophones#ROLL
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ROLLCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ROLL rollen, partly from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#ROLL roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval LatinCategory:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#ROLL rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ROLL rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ROLL rollāre, from the same ultimate source.
Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.
Verb
roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)Category:English lemmas#ROLLCategory:English verbs#ROLLCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- The child will roll on the floor.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370, lines 267–268:
- Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 13:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
- This river will roll its waters to the ocean.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- The years roll on.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
- The pastry rolls well.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) To move upon rollers or wheels.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- (chiefly USCategory:American English#ROLL, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#ROLL, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
- I want to get there early; let's roll.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (chiefly USCategory:American English#ROLL, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#ROLL, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To compete, especially with vigor.
- OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (chiefly Canada, USCategory:Canadian English#ROLLCategory:American English#ROLL, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
- Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- (geometryCategory:en:Geometry#ROLL) 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.
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World:
- Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul,Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
what different sorrows did within thee roll?
- (USCategory:American English#ROLL, slangCategory:English slang#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 2006 November 21, Chris McKenna, “Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens”, in Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY, archived from the original on 16 May 2007:
- "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (dice gamesCategory:en:Dice games#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To throw dice.
- (dice gamesCategory:en:Dice games#ROLL, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (roleplaying gamesCategory:en:Role-playing games#ROLL) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#ROLL) To generate a random number.
- (dice gamesCategory:en:Dice games#ROLL, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#ROLL) 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.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, aviationCategory:en:Aviation#ROLL, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#ROLL, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- 19th c., anonymous author, “Rolling Down to Old Maui”:
- We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
Rolling down to Old Maui
- early 20th c., anonymous author, “Randy Dandy-O”:
- Now we are ready to head for the HornCategory:English terms with quotations#ROLL
Way-hey, roll and go!
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To beat up; to assault.
- 1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Herbert Huncke, “The Beatnick's Beatnick”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Sometimes I'd roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morningCategory:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2006, Elizabeth Gaffney, Metropolis, page 422:
- They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#ROLL, slangCategory:English slang#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (slangCategory:English slang#ROLL, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- 2000, Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 15:
- 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.”Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2003, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 169:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN
- So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLLCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
- The cameras are rolling.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- It's time to roll the cameras.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL, soccerCategory:en:Football (soccer)#ROLL) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To have a rolling aspect.
- the hills rolled onCategory:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To utter with an alveolar trill.
- Many languages roll their r's.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL, USCategory:American English#ROLL) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL) To create a customized version of.
- 2000, Mark F. Komarinski, Cary Collett, Red Hat Linux System Administration Handbook, page 311:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2006, Keyboard, volume 32, page 188:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2010, Joseph Rattz, Adam Freeman, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010, page 208:
- For the second prototype's example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 2015, Hyer Thomas, Derivatives Algorithms - Volume 1: Bones (Second Edition), page 135:
- We implementCategory:English terms with quotations#ROLL
Cube_as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficientlySwapwith lower-dimensional containers is not supported by theboost::multi_arraytemplate, so we must roll our own.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL, martial artsCategory:en:Martial arts#ROLL) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, shippingCategory:en:Shipping#ROLL) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROLL, musicCategory:en:Music#ROLL) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ROLL, video gamesCategory:en:Video games#ROLL) 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.
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- as easy as rolling off a log
- beroll
- cold roll
- eye-roll
- god roll
- heads will roll
- hot roll
- leaf-rolling
- let's roll
- let the good times roll
- like rolling off a log
- lush-roll
- misroll
- off-roll
- outroll
- overroll
- pick and roll
- press roll
- rag-roll
- ready to roll
- reroll
- rollability
- rollable
- rollaboard
- roll about
- roll around
- rollaway
- roll away
- roll back
- rollbag
- rollbar
- roll coal
- roll deep
- roll down
- rolleo
- roller
- rolleron
- rollform
- roll from one's tongue
- roll from the tongue
- rollick
- rollie
- roll in
- roll in dough
- rolling in clover
- rolling in it
- roll in money
- roll in one's grave
- roll in the aisle
- roll in the aisles
- roll in the hay
- roll in wealth
- rollneck
- roll off
- rolloff
- roll off one's tongue
- roll off the tongue
- rollography
- roll-on
- roll on
- roll one's eyes
- roll one's own
- roll one's r's
- roll one's wheels
- roll-on roll-off
- roll out
- rollout
- roll-out
- roll out the red carpet
- roll over
- roll-over
- roll over in one's grave
- roll tape
- roll the dice
- roll the pitch
- roll the tape
- roll the trucks
- roll tide
- rollunder
- roll up
- roll up on
- roll up the sidewalks
- rollway
- roll with
- roll with it
- roll with the punches
- rolly
- roll-your-own
- rolony
- set the ball rolling
- slow roll
- start the ball rolling
- steamroll
- take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
- unroll
- uproll
- wait till the clouds roll by
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roll (plural rolls)Category:English lemmas#ROLLCategory:English nouns#ROLLCategory:English countable nouns#ROLLCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROLLCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ROLL
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- the roll of a ballCategory:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- Look at the roll of the waves.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- the roll of her eyesCategory:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- 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.
- Hear the roll of cannon.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#ROLL, aviationCategory:en:Aviation#ROLL) 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.
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#ROLL) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
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- Calculate the roll of that aircraft.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- Make your roll.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- He is on a roll tonight.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (USCategory:American English#ROLL, paddlesport) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- She has a bombproof roll.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- (financeCategory:en:Finance#ROLL) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#ROLL) An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
- (firefightingCategory:en:Firefighting#ROLL) A 14-day deployment.
Derived terms
- aileron roll
- antiroll
- anti-roll bar
- backroll
- backwards roll
- barrel roll
- beadroll
- bedroll
- blue roll
- bookroll
- borrow roll
- brushroll
- cannon roll
- checkroll
- chin roll
- combat roll
- dead roll
- death roll
- dice roll
- drum roll
- duckroll
- Dutch roll
- Easter egg roll
- egg roll
- faceroll
- finger roll
- forward roll
- forwards roll
- freeroll
- Goldman roll
- Granby roll
- hand roll
- handroll
- head roll
- kathi roll
- kati roll
- kayak roll
- landing roll
- leafroll
- lobster roll
- midroll
- misroll
- mortgage roll
- neckroll
- parachute roll
- passroll
- payroll
- pizza roll
- postroll
- preroll
- reroll
- roll bar
- roll cage, rollcage
- roll cloud
- roll cumulus
- roll hoop
- roll of honour
- roll of snow
- roll of the dice
- rollover
- roll-playing
- roll rate
- rollsign
- roll step
- roll-top
- roll-to-roll
- rudder roll
- slow one's roll
- snap roll
- social roll
- soul roll
- truck roll
- victory roll
- weather roll
- Western roll
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From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ROLLCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ROLL rolle, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#ROLL rolle, role, roule, from Medieval LatinCategory:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#ROLL rotulus (“a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a paper or parchment rolled up”); as such, it is a doublet of role and rotulusCategory:English doublets#ROLL.
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- That which is rolled up.
- a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World:
- Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- 1713 Sir M. Hale, The History of the Common Law of England (posthumously published)
- 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
- 1713 Sir M. Hale, The History of the Common Law of England (posthumously published)
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- c. 1666, John Davies, Historical Relations: Or, a Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued, Nor Brought Under Obedience of the Crown of England Until the Beginning of the Reign of King James I:
- The roll and list of that army doth remain.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbonCategory:English terms with usage examples#ROLL
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- 1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 18, column 4:
- 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!Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ROLL) A part; an office; a duty; a role.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCCXI. A Son Singing at his Brothers Funeral.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 273:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 594:
- Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.Category:English terms with quotations#ROLL
Derived terms
- Alaska roll
- arctic roll
- A roll
- asparagus roll
- banana roll
- banner roll
- banqueting roll
- banquet roll
- B.C. roll
- blog roll
- bog roll
- bread roll
- breakfast roll
- bridge roll
- B roll
- bulkie roll
- bum roll
- cabbage roll
- California roll
- Cali roll
- call roll
- camera roll
- caterpillar roll
- cheese roll
- chicken roll
- cinnamon roll
- coffee roll
- counter-roll
- court roll
- crescent roll
- crunchy roll
- dandy roll
- dinner roll
- dog roll
- dragon roll
- dynamite roll
- enrol, enroll
- flash roll
- French roll
- gut roll
- Hawaiian roll
- honor roll
- honour roll
- jam roll
- jelly roll
- Kaiser roll
- kitchen roll
- knee roll
- knife roll
- loo roll
- mango roll
- manorial roll
- Michigan roll
- milk roll
- morning roll
- muster roll
- no-roll
- nut roll
- off-roll
- onion roll
- Parker House roll
- pepperoni roll
- Philadelphia roll
- Philly roll
- piano roll
- pipe roll
- planishing roll
- poor's roll
- pork roll
- Portuguese roll
- prego roll
- printing roll
- ragman roll
- rainbow roll
- rent roll
- roll call
- roll container
- roll drop
- roll latten
- roll mill
- roll number
- roll of arms
- sand-roll
- sausage roll
- Seattle roll
- size roll
- spider roll
- sponge roll
- spring roll
- summer roll
- sushi roll
- Swiss roll
- take roll
- take the roll
- Texas roll
- toilet roll
- torpedo roll
- Vienna roll
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- “roll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “roll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Etymology
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roll m (genitive singular roll, nominative plural rollanna)Category:Irish lemmas#ROLLCategory:Irish nouns#ROLLCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#ROLLCategory:Irish masculine nouns#ROLLCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ROLL
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roll (present analytic rollann, future analytic rollfaidh, verbal noun rolladh, past participle rollta)Category:Irish lemmas#ROLLCategory:Irish verbs#ROLLCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#ROLLCategory:Pages with entries#ROLLCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ROLL
- (ambitransitiveCategory:Irish transitive verbs#ROLLCategory:Irish intransitive verbs#ROLL) roll
- (transitiveCategory:Irish transitive verbs#ROLL) form into a roll
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| present | rollaim | rollann tú; rollair† |
rollann sé, sí | rollaimid; rollann muid | rollann sibh | rollann siad; rollaid† |
a rollann; a rollas | rolltar |
| past | roll mé; rollas | roll tú; rollais | roll sé, sí | rollamar; roll muid | roll sibh; rollabhair | roll siad; rolladar | a roll | rolladh |
| past habitual | rollainn | rolltá | rolladh sé, sí | rollaimis; rolladh muid | rolladh sibh | rollaidís; rolladh siad | a rolladh | rolltaí |
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| future | rollfaidh mé; rollfad |
rollfaidh tú; rollfair† |
rollfaidh sé, sí | rollfaimid; rollfaidh muid |
rollfaidh sibh | rollfaidh siad; rollfaid† |
a rollfaidh; a rollfas | rollfar |
| conditional | rollfainn | rollfá | rollfadh sé, sí | rollfaimis; rollfadh muid | rollfadh sibh | rollfaidís; rollfadh siad | a rollfadh | rollfaí |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | direct relative | autonomous | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
| present | go rolla mé; go rollad† |
go rolla tú; go rollair† |
go rolla sé, sí | go rollaimid; go rolla muid |
go rolla sibh | go rolla siad; go rollaid† |
— | go rolltar |
| past | dá rollainn | dá rolltá | dá rolladh sé, sí | dá rollaimis; dá rolladh muid |
dá rolladh sibh | dá rollaidís; dá rolladh siad |
— | dá rolltaí |
| imperative | singular | plural | direct relative | autonomous | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
| — | rollaim | roll | rolladh sé, sí | rollaimis | rollaigí; rollaidh† |
rollaidís | — | rolltar |
| past participle | rollta | |||||||
| verbal noun | rolladh | |||||||
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- coirce rollta (“rolled oats”)
- consan rollta (“trill”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “roll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “roll”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “roll”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
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Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | roll | rolls |
| definite | rollen | rollens | |
| plural | indefinite | roller | rollers |
| definite | rollerna | rollernas |
Derived terms
- (part): huvudroll, huvudrollsinnehavare, karaktärsroll, könsroll, rollfördelning, rollista, rollspel, spela någon roll , det spelar ingen roll, titelroll, yrkesroll
- (rotation): tunnelroll
Further reading
- “roll”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)