roll
Noun
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subtypes: wallow - an indolent or clumsy rolling aboutsame as: axial motion, axial rotation
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subtypes:
- batting order, card, lineup - (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- death-roll - a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster
- muster roll - a list of names of officers and men in a military unit or ship's company
- church roll - a list of the members of church
- rota - a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties
- waiting list - a roster of those waiting to obtain something
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is a type of: moving ridge, wave - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)same as: roller, rolling wave
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is a type of: film, photographic film - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
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is a type of: round shape - a shape that is curved and without sharp anglessubtypes:
- corolla - (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth
- calyx - (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
- verticil - a whorl of leaves growing around a stem
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referred to in: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspectsis a type of: cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of moneysame as: bankroll
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is a type of: bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then bakedsubtypes:
- tea bread - sweetened buns to be eaten with tea
- frankfurter bun, hotdog bun - a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter
- hamburger bun, hamburger roll - a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty
- brioche - a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet
- crescent roll, croissant - very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
- hard roll, vienna roll - yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
- soft roll - yeast-raised roll with a soft crust
- kaiser roll - rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center
- parker house roll - yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking
- clover-leaf roll - yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan
- onion roll - yeast-raised roll flavored with onion
- coffee roll, sweet roll - any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze
- bagel, beigel - (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
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is a type of: sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event
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is a type of: sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible eventsame as: drum roll, paradiddle
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is a type of: holograph, manuscript - handwritten book or documentsubtypes:specific instances: dead sea scrolls - (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940ssame as: scroll
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is a type of: cylinder - a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
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is a type of: throw - casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomlysubtypes: natural - (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stakeis a part of: craps - a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dicesame as: cast
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is a type of: gait - a person's manner of walking
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is a type of: airplane maneuver, flight maneuver - a maneuver executed by an aircraftsubtypes:
- barrel roll - a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course
- snap roll - a fast roll
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is a type of: actuation, propulsion - the act of propellingis a part of: bowling - the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etcsame as: bowl
Verb
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is a type of: turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sensesubtypes: rim - roll around the rim ofsame as: turn over
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is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphoricallysame as: wheel
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same as: undulate
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is a type of: flatten - make flat or flattersame as: roll out
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes:
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is a type of: tumble - do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsubtypes: luff - flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
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is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphoricallysubtypes:
- maunder - wander aimlessly
- gad, gallivant, jazz around - wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes: transit - revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its directionsame as: revolve
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same as: seethe
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is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesame as: roll up
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- Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
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- Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
- Verbs of buying, selling, owning
- Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
- Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
- Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
- Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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