verb
- Move by turning over or rotating.
- usage: "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
- Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.
- usage: "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
- Occur in soft rounded shapes.
- usage: "The hills rolled past"
- Flatten or spread with a roller.
- usage: "roll out the paper"
- Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.
- usage: "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
- synonyms: roll
- Arrange or or coil around.
- usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
- Begin operating or running.
- usage: "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
- synonyms: roll
- Shape by rolling.
- usage: "roll a cigarette"
- synonyms: roll
- Execute a roll, in tumbling.
- usage: "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
- synonyms: roll
- Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.
- Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
- usage: "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
- Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
- usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
- usage: "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
- synonyms: roll
- Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.
- usage: "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
- Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
- usage: "She rolls her r's"
- synonyms: roll
- Boil vigorously.
- usage: "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"
- Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.
- usage: "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
- synonyms: roll
- Show certain properties when being rolled.
- usage: "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"
adjective
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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