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▸ 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:  (ambitransitive, 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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