1. Move by turning over or rotating
   "The child rolled down the hill";
   - turn over
    
2. Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
   "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds";
   - wheel
    
3. Flatten or spread with a roller
   "roll out the paper";
   - roll out
    
4. Occur in soft rounded shapes
   "The hills rolled past";
   - undulate
    
5. Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
   "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words";
   - revolve
    
6. Move, rock, or sway from side to side
   "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
    
7. Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
   "the waves rolled towards the beach";
   - undulate, flap, wave
    
8. Shape by rolling
   "roll a cigarette"
    
9. Begin operating or running
   "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
    
10. Execute a roll, in tumbling
    "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
     
11. Move about aimlessly or without any fixed destination
    "They rolled from town to town";
    - wander, swan [informal], stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond [archaic]
     
12. Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
    "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
     
13. Arrange or coil around
    "roll your hair around your finger";
    - wind[2], wrap, twine
     
14. Take the shape of a roll or cylinder
    "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
     
15. Show certain properties when being rolled
    "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"; "The carpet rolls up unevenly";
    - roll up
     
16. Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
    "The pickpocket rolled drunk patrons at the bar";
    - hustle [informal], pluck
     
17. Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
    "She rolls her r's"
     
18. Boil vigorously
    "The water rolled";
    - seethe

1. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis
   "The Earth's roll on its axis creates day and night";
   - axial rotation, axial motion
    
2. Anything rolled up in cylindrical form
   "She made a roll of paper to create a telescope"
    
3. A small rounded bread
   "She filled the hamburger roll with a juicy patty";
   - bun
    
4. A list of names
   "his name was struck off the rolls";
   - roster
    
5. 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";
   - bankroll
    
6. Photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
   "He loaded a new roll of film into his vintage camera"
    
7. A document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
   "The ancient roll contained a map to the lost city";
   - scroll
    
8. A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
   "Surfers waited for the perfect roll";
   - roller, rolling wave
    
9. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
   "The roll of the cathedral bells could be heard across the city";
   - peal, pealing, rolling
    
10. The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
    "The drummer practised his rolls for hours"; "A drum roll announced the beginning of the circus act";
    - paradiddle, drum roll
     
11. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
    "The poet described the roll of rose petals unfurling";
    - coil, whorl, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
     
12. The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
    "His perfect roll knocked down all the pins";
    - bowl
     
13. Walking with a swaying gait
    "The sailor's roll as he walked down the street revealed his years at sea"
     
14. A flight manoeuvre; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
    "The pilot executed a perfect roll during the air show"
     
15. The act of throwing dice
    "His roll of the dice determined the next player's move";
    - cast

Sounds like: roe, row, rho

Derived forms: rolled, rolling, rolls

See also: roll over

Type of: actuation, aeroplane manoeuvre [Brit], airplane maneuver [US], airplane manoeuvre [Cdn], articulate, boil, bread, breadstuff, cash in hand, change, change form, change shape, churn, cylinder, deform, displace, enounce [archaic], enunciate, film, finances, flatten, flight maneuver [US], flight manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], form, function, funds, gait, go, gyration, holograph, list, listing, locomote, manuscript, moil [N. Amer], monetary resource, move, moving ridge, occur, operate, pancake, pecuniary resource, photographic film, pronounce, propulsion, revolution, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], rock, roil, rotation, round shape, run, say, shake, shape, sound, sound out, staff of life, steal, sway, throw, travel, tumble, turn, wave, work

Antonym: wind off

Part of: bowling, craps

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