v (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
v To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
v To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up.
v (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
v (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out.
v To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
v (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
v (chiefly|US|Canada|colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
v (chiefly|US|Canada|colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
v To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
v (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.
v To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
v (US|slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
v (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as (term|ecstasy|lang=en).
v (transitive)(rfdef|lang=en)
n The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
n That which rolls; a roller
n Specifically, a heavy cylinder used to break clods.
n Specifically, one of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
n That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
n Specifically, a document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
n Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
n Specifically, a quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
n Specifically, A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
n A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
n (nautical) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
n A heavy, reverberatory sound.
n The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
n (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
n A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
n the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
n The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
n (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel rotates on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.