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roll  (rl)

v. rolled, roll·ing, rolls

v.intr.

1. To move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

2. To travel or be moved on wheels or rollers: rolled down the sidewalk on their scooters.

3. To travel around; wander: roll from town to town.

4.

a. To travel or be carried in a vehicle.

b. To be carried on a stream: The logs rolled down the cascading river.

5.

a. To start to move or operate: The press wouldn't roll.

b. To work or succeed in a sustained way; gain momentum: The political campaign finally began to roll.

6. To go by; elapse: The days rolled along.

7. To recur. Often used with around: Summer has rolled around again.

8. To move in a periodic revolution, as a planet in its orbit.

9. To turn over and over: The puppy rolled in the mud.

10. To shift the gaze usually quickly and continually: The child's eyes rolled with fright.

11. To turn around or revolve on or as if on an axis.

12. To move or advance with a rising and falling motion; undulate: The waves rolled toward shore.

13. To extend or appear to extend in gentle rises and falls: The dunes roll to the sea.

14. To move or rock from side to side: The ship pitched and rolled in heavy seas.

15. To walk with a swaying, unsteady motion.

16. To take the shape of a ball or cylinder: Yarn rolls easily.

17. To become flattened by or as if by pressure applied by a roller.

18. To make a deep, prolonged, surging sound: Thunder rolled in the distance.

19. To make a sustained trilling sound, as certain birds do.

20. To beat a drum in a continuous series of short blows.

21. To pour or flow in or as if in a continual stream: tourists rolling into the city.

22. To enjoy ample amounts: rolled in the money.

v.tr.

1. To cause to move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

2. To move or push along on wheels or rollers: rolled the plane out of the hangar.

3. To impel or send onward in a steady, swelling motion: The sea rolls its waves onto the sand.

4. To impart a swaying, rocking motion to: Heavy seas rolled the ship.

5. To turn around or partly turn around; rotate: rolled his head toward the door.

6. To cause to begin moving or operating: roll the cameras; roll the presses.

7. To extend or lay out: rolled out a long rope.

8. To pronounce or utter with a trill: You must roll your r's in Spanish.

9. To utter or emit in full, swelling tones.

10. To beat (a drum) with a continuous series of short blows.

11. To wrap (something) round and round upon itself or around something else: roll up a poster.

12.

a. To envelop or enfold in a covering: roll dirty laundry in a sheet.

b. To make by shaping into a ball or cylinder: roll a cigarette.

13. To spread, compress, or flatten by applying pressure with a roller: roll pastry dough.

14. Printing To apply ink to (type) with a roller or rollers.

15. Games To throw (dice), as in craps.

16. Slang To rob (a drunken, sleeping, or otherwise helpless person).

n.

1. The act or an instance of rolling.

2. Something rolled up: a roll of tape.

3. A quantity, as of cloth or wallpaper, rolled into a cylinder and often considered as a unit of measure.

4. A piece of parchment or paper that may be or is rolled up; a scroll.

5. A register or a catalogue.

6. A list of names of persons belonging to a group.

7. A mass in cylindrical or rounded form: a roll of tobacco.

8.

a. A small rounded portion of bread.

b. A portion of food shaped like a tube with a filling.

9. A rolling, swaying, or rocking motion.

10. A gentle swell or undulation of a surface: the roll of the plains.

11. A deep reverberation or rumble: the roll of thunder.

12. A rapid succession of short sounds: the roll of a drum.

13. A trill: the roll of his r's.

14. A resonant, rhythmical flow of words.

15. A roller, especially a cylinder on which to roll something up or with which to flatten something.

16. A maneuver in which an airplane makes a single complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.

17. Slang Money, especially a wad of paper money.

Phrasal Verbs:

roll back

1. To reduce (prices or wages, for example) to a previous lower level.

2. To cause to turn back or retreat.

roll out

1. To get out of bed.

2. Football To execute a rollout.

roll over

1. To defer or postpone payment of (an obligation).

2. To renegotiate the terms of (a financial deal).

3. To reinvest (funds from a maturing security or from a tax-deferred account) into a similar security or account.

roll up

1. To arrive in a vehicle.

2. To accumulate; amass: rolled up quite a fortune.

Idioms:

on a roll Informal

Undergoing or experiencing sustained, even increasing good fortune or success: "The stock market's on a roll" (Karen Pennar).

roll in the hay Slang

Sexual intercourse.

roll the bones Games

To cast dice, especially in craps.

roll with the punches Slang

To cope with and withstand adversity, especially by being flexible.

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[Middle English rollen, from Old French roler, from Vulgar Latin *rotulre, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

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roll up

Verb

1. to form into a cylindrical shape: roll up a length of black material

2. Informal to arrive

Noun

roll-up

Brit informal a cigarette made by the smoker from loose tobacco and cigarette papers

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	roll up - form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth" furl roll up, roll - show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" change form, change shape, deform - assume a different shape or form douse - lower quickly; "douse a sail" reef - roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area bolt - make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric" gather in, take in - fold up; "take in the sails" brail - take in a sail with a brail
	2.	roll up - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" collect, compile, accumulate, amass, hoard, pile up run up - pile up (debts or scores) corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election" collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" bale - make into a bale; "bale hay" catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation salt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
	3.	roll up - arrive in a vehicle: "He rolled up in a black Mercedes" arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
	4.	roll up - make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions" bundle, bundle up pack - arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes"
	5.	roll up - close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle; "she rolled up the window when it started to rain" close, shut - move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window"
	6.	roll up - form a cylinder by rolling; "roll up a banner" wrap up roll up, roll - show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" change surface - undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface unfurl, unroll - unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; "unfurl a banner"
	7.	roll up - show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" roll change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" wrap up, roll up - form a cylinder by rolling; "roll up a banner" furl, roll up - form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth"