Roll

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Homophones 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Related terms 2 Swedish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Related terms

English

Homophones

• role

Verb

to roll (rolls, rolled, rolling)

1. 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.

   roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel

2. To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

   roll a sheet of paper

   roll clay or putty into a ball

3. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up

   roll up a parcel

4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

   a river rolls its waters to the ocean

5. To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out.

   roll forth someone's praises

   roll out sentences

6. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.

   roll a field

   roll paste

   roll steel rails

7. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
8. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
9. (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.
10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

Translations

• French: rouler (1,2,4), faire rouler (9)
• Swedish: rulla (1,2,9)

Noun

roll (plural rolls)

1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.

   the roll of a ball

   the roll of waves

2. That which rolls; a roller
3. Specifically, a heavy cylinder used to break clods.
4. 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.
5. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
6. Specifically, a document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
7. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
8. Specifically, a quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
9. Specifically, A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
10. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
11. (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.
12. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

    the roll of cannon

    the roll of thunder

13. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
14. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
15. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

    Quotations

    • 1882: Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 594.

Translations

• French: roule (1)
• Swedish: rullande (1,11), rulle (5,6), rullor (7) (only plural)

Related terms

• roller
• bread roll
• roll-over
• roll over
• Rolls

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Swedish

Noun

roll

1. role

Common
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	roll	rollen	roller	rollerna
Genitive	rolls	rollens	rollers	rollernas

Related terms

• huvudroll
• huvudrollsinnehavare
• rollfördelning
• könsroll