roll

roll: v

1. revolve, rotate, bowl, trundle, troll, tumble, somersault, somerset, turn, go around; (all of a vessel) pitch, lurch, haw, swing, toss, rock, incline, sway, lean; spin, gyrate, whirl, pivot, pirouette, wheel, reel, swirl, twirl, twiddle.

2. cart, push, pull, move, convey, transport; drive, ride, float, sail, coast.

3. wave, undulate, ripple, billow, surge; flow, run, stream.

4. thunder, rumble, roar, boom, bellow, fulminate, rend the heavens or skies; resound, resonate, reverberate, echo, reecho, bounce back, bounce off the walls, fill the air or room; peal, toll, ring, knoll, knell, chime, ding, dong, tinkle, jingle; whir, hum, buzz; sing, trill, vibrate, rattle, quaver, quiver, shake, quake, tremble.

5.Usu. roll out

unroll, flatten, flat, level, level off, even off, grade, symmetrize; smooth, smooth out, spread out, press, iron, mangle; mash, squash, crush, Sl. smush.

6. wrap, enwrap, wrap up, enfold, encompass, en-wreath, encircle, envelop; sheathe, encase, case, package, enclose; cover, clothe, muffle, swathe, shroud, enshroud.

7. wind, curl, spiral, intort, twist; furl, ball, clew, convolve, intervolve, sinuate, curve, incurvate, roll around or up, unflatten; entwine, twine, wreathe, twist or wrap around.

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8. scroll, rota, tablet, document; coil, corkscrew, twist, spiral, twirl, whorl, vortex, gyration, convolution, volute, Bot., Zool. involution; curl, curlicue, ring, lock, kink, winding, helix, circle, rondure, Bot. tendril.

9. roster, register, muster, muster roll, beadroll, attendance; list, Sports. line-up, Law. panel, slate, ticket, ballot, docket; catalogue, inventory, directory, book of names, atlas, index, yellow pages.

10. spool, reel, bobbin, roller, cylinder; ball, loaf, head, bundle, bunch; dossier, file, package, packet.

11.Cookery. bun, scone, biscuit, Brit. cookie; bread, pastry, cake, Inf. sweet.

12. undulation, wave, waviness, curve, curviness; hilliness, ripple, billow.

13. rumble, thunder, thundering, thunderclap, roar, boom, bellowing, fulmination; reverberation, resonance, echoing, reechoing; drumroll, ratatat, pitapat, pitter-patter; vibration, tremor, rattle, quake, quiver, quaver, shake, trembling, Both Music. vibrato, tremolo; whir, hum, buzz, singing.

14.Slang. bankroll, money, pocketful of bills, full wallet; bundle, wad, pile.

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Synonyms:

Turn, make revolve, Revolve, rotate, turn, wheel, whirl, gyrate, whirl round, go round, turn round, Volume, scroll, document / Run, flow, glide / Whirl, wheel, revolve, Run on wheels, Chronicle, record, history, annals / Revolve, turn about (in one's mind), Revolve, perform a revolution, List, register, catalogue, inventory, schedule, official document / Wrap round (one part on another), Turn, move circularly, Loaf of bread (small, and rolled up while in the dough) / Bind, involve, inwrap, infold, Rock from side to side, be tossed about, Rocking (as of a vessel in a heavy sea) / Press, level, smooth, flatten, Move (as billows), Prolonged, deep sound / Drive, impel forward, Fluctuate, move tumultuously, Cylinder, roller / Emit, give expression to, Fall over and over, tumble, Round mass / Wheel, trundle, Wallow, welter, tumble about

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roll — [rōl] vi. [ME rollen < OFr roller < VL * rotulare < L rotula: see ROLL the n.] 1. a) to move by turning on an axis or over and over b) to rotate about its axis lengthwise, as a spacecraft in flight 2. a) to move or be mov … English World dictionary
Roll — bezeichnet: Personen: Alfred Philippe Roll (1847–1919), französischer Maler Christine Roll (* 1960) deutsche Historikerin Eric Roll, Lord Roll of Ipsden (1907–2005), britischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Bankier Gernot Roll (* 1939),… … Deutsch Wikipedia
roll — ► VERB 1) move by turning over and over on an axis. 2) move forward on wheels or with a smooth, undulating motion. 3) (of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) sway on an axis parallel to the direction of motion. 4) (of a machine or device) begin… … English terms dictionary
Roll — Roll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rolling}.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. {Control}, {Roll}, n.,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Roll — 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
roll — [rəʊl ǁ roʊl] verb roll something → back phrasal verb [transitive] COMMERCE to reduce the price of something to a previous level: • the administration s promise to roll back taxes roll in phrasal verb [intransitive] … Financial and business terms
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