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roll
English
- 🔊 the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- 🔊 a flight maneuver
- 🔊 walking with a swaying gait
- 🔊 anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- 🔊 photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- 🔊 a list of names“his name was struck off the rolls”
- 🔊 the act of throwing dice
- 🔊 a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- 🔊 a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- 🔊 the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- 🔊 small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- 🔊 rotary motion of an object around its own axis“wheels in axial rotation”
- 🔊 a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- 🔊 execute a roll, in tumbling“The gymnasts rolled and jumped”
- 🔊 show certain properties when being rolled“The carpet rolls unevenly”
- 🔊 take the shape of a roll or cylinder“the carpet rolled out”
- 🔊 shape by rolling“roll a cigarette”
- 🔊 pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/“She rolls her r's”
- 🔊 begin operating or running“The cameras were rolling”
- 🔊 move by turning over or rotating“The child rolled down the hill”
- 🔊 cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis“She rolled the ball”
- 🔊 move, rock, or sway from side to side“The ship rolled on the heavy seas”
- 🔊 move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment“The gypsies roamed the woods”
- 🔊 move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion“The curtains undulated”
- 🔊 emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound“The thunder rolled”
- 🔊 occur in soft rounded shapes“The hills rolled past”
- 🔊 boil vigorously“The liquid was seething”
- 🔊 flatten or spread with a roller“roll out the paper”
- 🔊 move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle“The President's convoy rolled past the crowds”
- 🔊 arrange or or coil around“roll your hair around your finger”
- 🔊 sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
Spanish
- 🔊 encabezamiento roll
- 🔊 rollo roll
- 🔊 rol roll, list
- 🔊 rodar to roll, rotate
- 🔊 arrollar to roll, to roll away
- 🔊 registro roll, register, logbook, log
- 🔊 cilindrar to roll, roll up (into a cylinder shape)