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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. Occur in soft rounded shapes
   "The hills rolled past";
   - undulate
    
4. Flatten or spread with a roller
   "roll out the paper";
   - roll out
    
5. Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
   "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
    
6. Arrange or coil around
   "roll your hair around your finger";
   - wind[2], wrap, twine
    
7. Begin operating or running
   "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
    
8. Shape by rolling
   "roll a cigarette"
    
9. Execute a roll, in tumbling
   "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
    
10. Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
    - hustle [informal], pluck
     
11. Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
    "the waves rolled towards the beach";
    - undulate, flap, wave
     
12. 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]
     
13. Move, rock, or sway from side to side
    "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
     
14. 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
     
15. Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
    "She rolls her r's"
     
16. Boil vigorously
    "The water rolled";
    - seethe
     
17. Take the shape of a roll or cylinder
    "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
     
18. Show certain properties when being rolled
    "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"; "The carpet rolls up unevenly";
    - roll up

1. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis
   - axial rotation, axial motion
    
2. A list of names
   "his name was struck off the rolls";
   - roster
    
3. A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
   - roller, rolling wave
    
4. Photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
    
5. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
   - coil, whorl, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
    
6. 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
    
7. A small rounded bread
   - bun
    
8. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
   - peal, pealing, rolling
    
9. The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
   - paradiddle, drum roll
    
10. A document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
    - scroll
     
11. Anything rolled up in cylindrical form
     
12. The act of throwing dice
    - cast
     
13. Walking with a swaying gait
     
14. A flight manoeuvre; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
     
15. The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
    - bowl

Sounds like: roe, row, rho

Derived forms: rolls, rolling, rolled

See also: roll up

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, 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, 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

Part of: bowling, craps

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