Usually means: Move by turning over surfaces.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. roll: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. roll: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. roll: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. roll: Collins English Dictionary
  5. roll: Vocabulary.com
  6. Roll, Roll, roll: Wordnik
  7. roll: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Roll, roll: Wiktionary
  9. roll: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. roll: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. roll: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. roll: Dictionary.com
  13. roll (n.), roll (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. roll: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Roll (Anne McCue album), Roll (Mega Man), Roll (disambiguation), Roll (flight), Roll (gymnastics), Roll (ship), Roll: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Roll: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. roll: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. roll: Rhymezone
  19. roll: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. roll: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ROLL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Roll: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. roll: Free Dictionary
  24. roll: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Roll, roll: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. roll: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. roll: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. roll: Legal dictionary
  5. roll: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roll (flight), roll: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. roll: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. roll: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. Roll: Castle Terms
  5. ROLL, ROLL, ROLL: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  6. ROLL: Acronym Finder
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. roll: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roll: Easton Bible
  2. Roll: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roll: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. roll, roll: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roll: Dan's Poker
  2. Roll: Backgammon
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Roll: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Roll: Bay Area Video Preservation
  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. roll: Chapters in the Sky
  8. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  10. roll: Coin Collecting
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (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.
verb:  (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
verb:  (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
verb:  (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
verb:  (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
verb:  (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.
verb:  (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
verb:  (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
verb:  (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
verb:  (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.
verb:  (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
verb:  (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
verb:  (dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.
verb:  (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
verb:  (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
verb:  (computing) To generate a random number.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
verb:  (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.
verb:  (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
verb:  (intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone
verb:  (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.
verb:  (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
verb:  (transitive) To create a customized version of.
verb:  (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
verb:  (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
noun:  The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
noun:  A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
noun:  Something which rolls.
noun:  A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
noun:  One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
noun:  A swagger or rolling gait.
noun:  A heavy, reverberatory sound.
noun:  The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
noun:  The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
noun:  An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
noun:  The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
noun:  A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
noun:  A training match for a fighting dog.
noun:  (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
noun:  (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
noun:  (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
noun:  That which is rolled up.
noun:  A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
noun:  An official or public document; a register; a record.
noun:  A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
noun:  A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
noun:  A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
noun:  A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
noun:  (obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.
noun:  A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
noun:  A surname.

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