roll

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
2. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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.

1. That which is rolled up.

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

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

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

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

   “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”

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

   “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.”

5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

   “a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon”

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.

   “Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!”

8. A part; an office; a duty; a role.

   “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.”

9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

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

verb

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.

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.

   “To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.”

   “The child will roll on the floor.”

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

   “To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.”

   “The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.”

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

   “To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.”

4. To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.

   “This river will roll its waters to the ocean.”

   “The years roll on.”

5. To pour or trickle.

   “Drops of sweat rolled down his face.”

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

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

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

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

   “The pastry rolls well.”

8. To move upon rollers or wheels.

   “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.”

   “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.”

9. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
10. To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

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

11. To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

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

12. To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

    “Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.”

13. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
14. 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.
15. To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.

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

16. To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

    “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.”

17. To throw dice.

    “If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.”

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

18. To throw dice.

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

19. To throw dice.
20. To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
21. To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
22. To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.

    “We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground, Rolling down to Old Maui”

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

23. To beat up; to assault.

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

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

24. To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.

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

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

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

    “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.””

    “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.”

26. To (cause to) film.

    “The cameras are rolling.”

    “It's time to roll the cameras.”

27. To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

    “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.”

    “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.”

28. To have a rolling aspect.

    “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.”

29. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

    “The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.”

30. To utter with an alveolar trill.

    “Many languages roll their r's.”

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

    “The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.”

32. To create a customized version of.

    “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.”

    “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.”

33. To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
34. To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

    “Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.”

35. To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
36. To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.