English Explanatory Dictionary

roll

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. 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.
  2. To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  3. To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  4. To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
  5. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
  6. To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
  7. To move upon rollers or wheels.
  8. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
  9. To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
  10. To compete, especially with vigor.
  11. To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.
  12. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
noun
  1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
  2. Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up.
  3. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
  4. Something which rolls.
  5. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  6. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
  7. A swagger or rolling gait.
  8. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
  9. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  10. 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.
  11. The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
  12. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
noun
  1. That which is rolled up.
  2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  3. An official or public document; a register; a record.
  4. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
  5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
  6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
  8. A part; an office; a duty; a role.
  9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
  2. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ɹəʊl/ [ɹɒʊɫ] /ɹɒl/ /ɹoʊl/ [ɹoʊɫ] /ɹol/ en-us-roll.ogg /ɹəʉl/ /ɹəʉɫ/ /ɹɐʉl/ [ɹɐʉɫ] /ɾol/ /ɾoul/ /rol/ /rɔ(w)l/

Word forms

roll rolls rolling rolled no-table-tags glossary rollest rolledst rolleth

Etymology

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.

Related words

Rolls welt

Derived words

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

Translations

Afrikaans: rol Afrikaans: stoot Arabic: فَرَدَ Arabic: رَقَّ Breton: rollañ Bulgarian: валцувам Bulgarian: търкалям Chinese Mandarin: 擀 Czech: válet Czech: válcovat Dutch: walsen Dutch: pletwalsen Dutch: rollen Finnish: tasoittaa Finnish: levittää Finnish: jyrätä Finnish: kaulita Finnish: valssata Finnish: rullata Finnish: kallistua Finnish: keinua French: rouler French: laminer French: niveler French: aplatir German: walzen German: ausrollen German: rollen Māori: takapapa Māori: takataka Māori: tātaka Portuguese: amassar Portuguese: rolar Russian: ката́ть Russian: раска́тывать Russian: кати́ть Russian: кати́ться Russian: ката́ться Spanish: allanar Spanish: rodar Spanish: rular Spanish: rolear Spanish: balancear Spanish: alabear Swedish: valsa Swedish: kavla Swedish: kavla ut Swedish: rulla Ottoman Turkish: لوغلامق Azerbaijani: diyirlənmək Azerbaijani: diyirləmək Azerbaijani: diyirlətmək Polish: turlać Polish: poturlać Ukrainian: коти́ти Catalan: brandar Catalan: balancejar Bulgarian: ролка Dutch: rol Esperanto: rulaĵo Finnish: rulla Finnish: kaulin French: rouleau German: Roller Hindi: गोला Italian: rotolo Portuguese: rolo Russian: ро́лик Russian: вал Russian: ва́лик Spanish: rodeador Spanish: rodeadora Swedish: rulle Swedish: kavle Ukrainian: ро́лик
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