roll

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.

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:

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

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):

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.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 13:

(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 sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

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

To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.

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

This river will roll its waters to the ocean.

(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

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

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

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

The pastry rolls well.

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

To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.

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.

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:

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.

2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

(ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.

(intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

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

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

To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

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

(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.

(transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(geometry) 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.

(transitive) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

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.

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 2007-05-16:

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

If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

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

(dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.

(dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

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

(roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

(computing) To generate a random number.

To throw dice.
To generate a random number.

(intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.

We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground / Rolling down to Old Maui

19th c., Rolling Down to Old Maui (anon.)

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

(intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.

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

1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Herbert Huncke, “The Beatnick's Beatnick”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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

2006, Elizabeth Gaffney, Metropolis, page 422:

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

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

To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

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

(intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.

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.”

2000, Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 15:

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.

2003, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 169:

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 […]

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

The cameras are rolling.

It's time to roll the cameras.

(transitive, intransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.

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.

2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

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.

2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:

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

To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

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.

2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

(intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.

The years roll on.

(figurative, intransitive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

(intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

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

1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World:

(figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone

The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

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

Many languages roll their r's.

(transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.

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

To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

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.

2000, Mark F. Komarinski, Cary Collett, Red Hat Linux System Administration Handbook, page 311:

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.

2010, Joseph Rattz, Adam Freeman, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010, page 208:

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.

2015, Hyer Thomas, Derivatives Algorithms - Volume 1: Bones (Second Edition), page 135:

(transitive) To create a customized version of.

(transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.

(intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

rol

to cause something to revolve by turning over and over

ruilhal

to drive or impel forward with an easy motion

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

roffelen

to beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum

rol

geometry: to apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping

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.

der

Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”)


roll

the roll of a ball

Look at the roll of the waves.

the roll of her eyes

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

A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

Something which rolls.
A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

to pass rails through the rolls

One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

Hear the roll of cannon.

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

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(nautical, aviation) 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.

(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.

Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

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

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

Make your roll.

Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.

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

He is on a roll tonight.

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

That was a good roll.

(US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

She has a bombproof roll.

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

financial instrument
financial instrument

(finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.

wals

one of a set of revolving cylinders between which metal is pressed

клатене

oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side

kallistuminen

the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis


roll

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

Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.

A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

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)

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

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.

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:

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

a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

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.

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:

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

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

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 594:

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

luettelo

a list of names or an official register of names

топ

From Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, role, roule, from Medieval Latin rotulus (“a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a paper or parchment rolled up”); as such, it is a doublet of role and rotulus.


roll

head

roll m (genitive singular roll, nominative plural rollanna)

roll (genitive singular)
rollanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
roll (indefinite singular)
rollanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a roll (indefinite singular)
a rollanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an roll (definite singular)
na rollanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
dative (definite)
leis an roll (definite singular)
don roll (definite singular)
leis na rollanna (definite plural)


roll

(transitive, intransitive) roll
(transitive) form into a roll

roll (present analytic rollann, future analytic rollfaidh, verbal noun rolladh, past participle rollta)

rollann (analytic present)
rollfaidh (analytic future)
rolladh (noun-from-verb)
rollta (participle past)
rollaim (first-person indicative present singular)
rollann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
rollair (indicative present second-person singular)
rollann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
rollaimid (first-person indicative plural present)
rollann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
rollann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
rollaid (indicative plural present third-person)
a rollann (indicative present relative)
a rollas (indicative present relative)
rolltar (autonomous indicative present)
roll mé (first-person indicative past singular)
rollas (first-person indicative past singular)
roll tú (indicative past second-person singular)
rollais (indicative past second-person singular)
roll sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
rollamar (first-person indicative past plural)
roll muid (first-person indicative past plural)
roll sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
rollabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
roll siad (indicative past plural third-person)
rolladar (indicative past plural third-person)
a roll (indicative past relative)
ar roll (indicative past relative)
rolladh (autonomous indicative past)
rollainn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
rolltá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
rolladh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
rollaimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
rolladh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
rolladh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
rollaidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
rolladh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a rolladh (habitual indicative past relative)
rolltaí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
rollfaidh mé (first-person future singular)
rollfad (first-person future singular)
rollfaidh tú (future second-person singular)
rollfair (future second-person singular)
rollfaidh sé (future singular third-person)
sí (future singular third-person)
rollfaimid (first-person future plural)
rollfaidh muid (first-person future plural)
rollfaidh sibh (future plural second-person)
rollfaidh siad (future plural third-person)
rollfaid (future plural third-person)
a rollfaidh (future relative)
a rollfas (future relative)
rollfar (autonomous future)
rollfainn (conditional first-person singular)
rollfá (conditional second-person singular)
rollfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
rollfaimis (conditional first-person plural)
rollfadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
rollfadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
rollfaidís (conditional plural third-person)
rollfadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
a rollfadh (conditional relative)
rollfaí (autonomous conditional)
go rolla mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go rollad (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go rolla tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go rollair (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go rolla sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go rollaimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go rolla muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go rolla sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go rolla siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go rollaid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go rolltar (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá rollainn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá rolltá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá rolladh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá rollaimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá rolladh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá rolladh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá rollaidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá rolladh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá rolltaí (autonomous past subjunctive)
rollaim (first-person imperative singular)
roll (imperative second-person singular)
rolladh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
rollaimis (first-person imperative plural)
rollaigí (imperative plural second-person)
rollaidh (imperative plural second-person)
rollaidís (imperative plural third-person)
rolltar (autonomous imperative)
rolladh (noun-from-verb)
rollta (participle past)


roll

roll (the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis)

roll (indefinite nominative singular)
rolls (genitive indefinite singular)
rollen (definite nominative singular)
rollens (definite genitive singular)
roller (indefinite nominative plural)
rollers (genitive indefinite plural)
rollerna (definite nominative plural)
rollernas (definite genitive plural)