roll
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noun
1 bread
ADJECTIVE
▪ bread
▪ crusty, soft
▪ dinner, finger (BrE), kaiser (AmE), morning (BrE), sub (AmE), submarine
▪ brown (esp. BrE), white (esp. BrE), wholegrain, wholemeal (BrE), wholewheat
▪ sweet
▪ cinnamon
▪ buttered, filled (BrE)
▪ cheese, ham, lobster (AmE), etc.
2 list of names
ADJECTIVE
▪ blog, honour/honor (esp. AmE), jobless (AmE), membership, registration, school, tax (esp. AmE), welfare (AmE)
▪ My daughter's grades improved and she made the honor roll. (AmE)
▪ electoral (BrE), voter (AmE), voting (AmE)
▪ falling (BrE)
▪ Falling rolls could lead to smaller class sizes.
VERB + ROLL
▪ remove sb from
▪ Eligible voters had been removed from the voting rolls.
▪ call, take
▪ The chairman called the roll (= to see if everyone was present).
ROLL + NOUN
▪ call
▪ Staff evacuated the building and a roll call was taken outside.
PREPOSITION
▪ on (the) roll
▪ There are 340 children on the school roll.
PHRASES
▪ a roll of honour (BrE)
▪ Her name was engraved on sport's roll of honour.
{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb
1 move by turning over
ADVERB
▪ slowly
▪ quickly
▪ He quickly rolled over and got to his feet.
▪ gently
▪ smoothly
▪ The black car rolled smoothly down the street.
▪ lazily
▪ She lazily rolled her head on the pillow.
▪ easily
▪ The boulder easily rolled aside.
▪ along, around, away, back, backwards/backward, down, forward, over
▪ The tigers rolled over and over in the mud.
PREPOSITION
▪ down
▪ A tear rolled slowly down her cheek.
▪ off
2 make sth into the shape of a ball/tube
ADVERB
▪ tightly
▪ She carried the magazine tightly rolled up in her hand.
▪ up
PREPOSITION
▪ into
▪ He rolled the paper into a tight ball.
3 of a ship/plane
ADVERB
▪ heavily (BrE)
▪ slightly
Roll is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑
ball, ↑
boat, ↑
camera, ↑
cart, ↑
cloud, ↑
credit, ↑
eye, ↑
mist, ↑
press, ↑
tank, ↑
thunder, ↑
train, ↑
truck, ↑
wagon, ↑
wave
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roll — [rōl] vi. [ME rollen < OFr roller < VL * rotulare < L rotula: see ROLL the n.] 1. a) to move by turning on an axis or over and over b) to rotate about its axis lengthwise, as a spacecraft in flight 2. a) to move or be mov … English World dictionary
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