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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roll
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball rolls
▪ The ball just rolled past the hole.
a mist rolls in (=moves along to a place)
▪ A mist began to roll in off the sea.
a Rolling Stones/Kylie Minogue etc fan
▪ Mike has been a lifelong Kylie Minogue fan.
a rumble/roll of thunder (=one of a series of deep sounds)
▪ We could hear the rumble of thunder growing louder.
bog roll
clouds move/roll
▪ A narrow band of cloud has been moving across the country.
egg roll
forward roll
honor roll
jelly roll
kitchen roll
pitch and roll
▪ the pitch and roll of the ship
rock 'n' roll
▪ Elvis, the king of rock ‘n’ roll
rock and roll
roll a cigarette (=make your own cigarette using special paper)
▪ It’s cheaper to roll your own cigarettes.
roll of honour
▪ the roll of honour on the war memorial
roll up/down a window (=open or shut the window in a car)
▪ Lucy rolled the window down and waved to him.
rolling countryside (=with hills)
▪ a valley surrounded by rolling countryside
rolling pin
rolling stock
rolling/gentle hills (=hills with slopes that are not steep)
▪ He loved the green rolling hills of Dorset.
sausage roll
spring roll
sweet roll
Swiss roll
tears run/roll/stream down sb’s face
▪ Oliver laughed until tears ran down his face.
the fog rolls in (=it arrives from the mountains, the sea etc)
▪ The fog rolled in from the ocean.
throw/roll the dice
▪ It’s your turn to roll the dice.
thunder rumbles/rolls
▪ Thunder rumbled in the distance.
toilet roll
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
▪ In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box.
▪ For his part, Chief just rolled along.
▪ Now and then a door slammed, sending metallic echoes rolling along the corridors.
▪ On this the debate got into high gear and rolled along for two weeks.
▪ Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape, and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings.
▪ Express has been rolling along, delaying and canceling the construction of much-needed facilities.
▪ The van was already rolling along the winding lane out of sight.
▪ But can the economy roll along strongly enough to boost profits while not pushing interest rates higher?
around
▪ Only this time, it was found rolling around in a dustbin.
▪ Last season they were 3-10 by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, and they never recovered.
▪ You rolled around, went blue and your eyes shot up into your head.
▪ Add potatoes and roll around to cover all surfaces with butter.
▪ We disappear into the darkness, where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy.
▪ But when the election rolled around last Tuesday, gays and lesbians in large numbers stood by Clinton.
▪ He eased inside Rosie with her pants still on, they rolled around each other like grotesques.
▪ What am I doing out there rolling around and being thrown around and groping myself?
away
▪ So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.
▪ I shifted the transmission out of park and into drive, and let the car roll away from the curb.
▪ Now when we meet the years roll away.
▪ After a while she rolled away and lay on her back with her scratchy eyelids stretched open.
▪ He had heard it drop off and roll away.
▪ He was rolling away from her, rolling for ever down a steep hill.
▪ Instinctively he tried to roll away and something to his right prevented him.
▪ The truck rolled away, gravel snap crackle pop under the oversize tires.
back
▪ Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state.
▪ Pope had already removed his jacket and begun to roll back his sleeve.
▪ A wide pancake shaped black cloth hat with a huge brim rolled back on one side adorned his dark hair.
▪ Environmentalists say that Congress is trying to roll back clean-air and water laws and to dismantle the Endangered Species Act.
▪ It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s.
▪ The second it ended, I would roll back over and spit up again.
down
▪ Tears rolling down her face, she turned on the taps.
▪ Sometimes when this is whispered in the ears of those near death, tears roll down their cheeks.
▪ It was as tall and cold as a glacier rolling down a valley, crunching trees like matchsticks.
▪ Under them and breathing evenly again, the anguish rolled down.
▪ Tears were rolling down my cheeks.
▪ It will be the one flying into Jacksonville with the windows rolled down.
▪ Rumours of something new would send us rolling down the ever widening highways.
▪ She was wearing a loose print dress and stockings that were rolled down below the knee.
forward
▪ The Carrier rolled forward, without slowing, its massive tyres crushing the last of the barricade.
▪ I rolled forward, hoping there would be a parking pad somewhere around the bend coming up.
▪ He pushes the man away; the man flops on to his side, then rolls forward on to his face again, groaning.
▪ The train rolled forward on its beams of steel.
▪ A new attack on them was rolling forward behind him.
▪ This would allow the construction teams to roll forward from the first stage due to open in November.
▪ And there are ribbons to shake, stepping stones to hop between, forward rolls to master.
▪ He landed headfirst in the corridor outside, rolling forward so that his heels chipped the wall opposite.
in
▪ After that the plum parts began to roll in.
▪ And the more I think about how nothing can be helped, the faster the fog rolls in.
▪ I smelt the sour odour of sweaty robes and noticed a brazier of gleaming charcoal had been rolled in.
▪ And, the sales keep rolling in.
▪ So long as fees rolled in, all this seemed justifiable.
▪ A lot of people on Wall Street are salivating at the prospect of having $ 150 billion a year rolling in.
▪ But when the business started rolling in, there was less time for arguments.
▪ The evidence just came rolling in.
off
▪ Then, as the years rolled by, more bikes rolled off the edge or into the mountainside.
▪ On the opposite bank, Luke rolled off her back and lay on the grass.
▪ Answers rolled off her tongue with well. oiled ease.
▪ Open windows receive the sea breeze rolling off the glistening sea.
▪ It may even roll off the table.
▪ Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
on
▪ Shannon rolled on to her back, staring through tear-glazed eyes at the ceiling.
▪ The conversation paused, and then rolled on.
▪ Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats.
▪ The scandals just kept rolling on.
▪ It rolled on to within eighty yards of the green, finishing on the left side of the fairway.
▪ The days of death rolled on inexorably towards the ending of the year.
▪ He rolled on top of her the second before it happened, spilling his seed on her leg and stomach.
out
▪ Cool. Roll out pastry and line an 8in fluted flan ring.
▪ Back in the cabin I mix the berries with sugar and lemon peel, then roll out the pie crusts.
▪ Continue rolling out all the rounds, covering them with a damp cloth. 5.
▪ The question is: Should we roll out the howitzer every time corruption appears?
▪ Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough.
▪ Because both market-dominating companies will roll out the innovation, prices are expected to be competitive.
▪ The waiters had filled her korma with man milk. Roll out the plank, Captain.
▪ But, I tell you what, tears rolled out my eyes.
over
▪ Relax the leg by bringing the knee close to the chest, then roll over and repeat on the other side.
▪ Alice stole one long drink before rolling over in the boundless bed, fantasizing it as an endless beach of white cloud.
▪ Repeat 15 times, then roll over and repeat on the other side.
▪ I rolled over and the soreness in my stomach throbbed and spread.
▪ Twenty-five feet down, Foo rolled over and saw an upside-down steam train puff by above him.
▪ McMurphy whispered and rolled over to sleep.
▪ Ronni felt her heart roll over and die at the sight of him.
▪ Beethoven may be rolling over in his grave, but audiences love it.
round
▪ He saw the old hedgehog rolling round among the windfalls early in the morning.
▪ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution expects to increase its circulation so much that its presses will roll round the clock.
▪ Jenny's twenty-sixth birthday was rolling round and she was becoming bored - very bored.
▪ These matter rolled round and round my brain, like a thunderstorm, like clothes in a tumble-drier.
up
▪ I took off my jacket and rolled up my shirtsleeves.
▪ Citizens rolled up their sleeves and went to work.
▪ He rolls up a dollar bill, and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something.
▪ A pickup came down the road and they rolled up their windows to keep the dust out.
▪ Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up.
▪ The walls of his shack were bamboo mats that had been rolled up to the roof beam.
▪ The danger, of course, lies in the fact that the deferred interest payments will be rolled up into the capital debt.
▪ Some combined a fatigue shirt with black pajama trousers rolled up to the knees.
■ NOUN
ball
▪ Celtic got the ball rolling with a goal from the impressive Nicholas after just 10 minutes.
▪ But now the ball is rolling.
▪ Hyperlink reference not valid., to start the ball rolling.
▪ Her words started the ball rolling.
▪ To determine how far the ball bounces roll the Artillery dice again and mark the spot where the ball comes to land.
▪ That ball rolled to the wall full of so many possibilities.
▪ Q, a sharp twentysomething, set the ball rolling by applying the lessons of club culture to literature.
▪ A ball of white yarn rolls across the floor.
bed
▪ She could roll over the bed and pick up the receiver.
▪ I stripped, and we rolled around the bed.
▪ At night, in our hotel, we practised how quickly we could roll out of our beds in case of an attack!
▪ He kicked it in, threw himself on the floor and rolled under the bed.
▪ Charles rolled out of bed and groped his way over to open it.
▪ Lais rolled over in bed, still half-asleep, clutching the pillow close to her, afraid to open her eyes.
▪ Sometimes, rolling over in bed reminded her, or reaching for something.
camera
▪ As their cameras rolled, the film crew looked on anxiously while Crawford drove the Rolls up the ramp.
▪ Of course I am scared, but when the camera is rolling all the people on the set are very quiet.
▪ When the cameras roll and the playback begins, everyone smiles.
▪ Not all the pranks end when the cameras stop rolling.
▪ Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity.
▪ The roar of the crowd could be heard inside the courtroom, where cameras rolled and flashbulbs popped.
▪ He took equal care, however briefly he knew the camera would be rolling.
▪ She was supremely self-confident with the gift of being able to bubble whenever the camera was rolling.
car
▪ What's more, this car will certainly not be the last hot road car development to roll out of the factory.
▪ There will also be 15 double-ended locos derived from the streamlined power cars to haul conventional rolling stock.
▪ I shifted the transmission out of park and into drive, and let the car roll away from the curb.
▪ The car was rolling over and kicking its legs for her.
▪ The apparatus included a car that kept rolling in circles, an enormous block of ice and taped Chopin piano music.
▪ By investing in car transporter rolling stock the railway companies were able to offer the manufacturers a service economically beneficial to both.
▪ I got into the car and tried to roll the window up.
carpet
▪ Looked together, they rolled across the carpet.
▪ She rolls it over the carpet by pushing it.
▪ She rolled along the carpet, hampered by her long dressing-gown, and then arms like steel tentacles caught her again.
▪ Under his bed was rolled a piece of carpet with a fringed edge, and among its creases Frankie kept his treasures.
▪ Practically lies down and purrs ... Well it's nice to roll out the red carpet, isn't it?
cigarette
▪ With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it.
▪ Dunne rolled another cigarette, running his tongue slowly along the glued edge of the brown paper.
▪ He took off his shoes, climbed into a chair, rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee.
▪ He began to hum a tune, dissociating himself, rolling a cigarette with easy movements.
▪ And he rolled up a cigarette and he says, I want you to pray with me.
▪ Odd-Knut rolled a thin cigarette and poured himself yet another coffee.
▪ Dunne rolled another cigarette and lit it.
dice
▪ If you roll a misfire when you roll the first dice the cannon has literally misfired and may explode.
▪ But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.
▪ Now roll the artillery dice again.
▪ I envy them for getting to roll the dice.
▪ Mark the point where the cannon ball strikes the ground and roll the Artillery dice to establish the bounce distance.
▪ To determine how far the ball bounces roll the Artillery dice again and mark the spot where the ball comes to land.
▪ To decide if the Goblin lands where you have aimed it roll both the scatter dice and the artillery dice.
dough
▪ Learned how to combine the ingredients for pasta, to roll out the dough, and cut it.
▪ Flour board and roll out dough.
▪ On a lightly floured board, roll out dough into a 12-inch circle.
▪ You may need to roll out dough slightly with a rolling pin.
▪ If you try to roll it, the dough will break apart, Noury says.
▪ Begin to roll out your dough, starting from the center and working to the outer edges of the dough.
▪ Stop rolling when the dough is about 11 or 12 inches in diameter.
face
▪ He pushes the man away; the man flops on to his side, then rolls forward on to his face again, groaning.
▪ Soon she found tears rolling down her face.
▪ Tears rolling down her face, she turned on the taps.
▪ Suds were rolling down her face and were on her shoulders.
▪ I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all.
▪ Marion was kneeling by the cradles, hugging her son, tears rolling down her face.
▪ I blew over its mouth and nose to revive it even though my tears were rolling on to its face.
▪ When the cleaners have gone home I trek through the rubber-tread corridors rolling on my faces like a marble ashtray.
floor
▪ Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats.
▪ He had jars of diet food rolling across the floor when he stopped or turned.
▪ My orderly had to roll me on the floor.
▪ The two men rolled around on the floor slugging each other and yelping and growling.
▪ We disappear into the darkness, where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy.
▪ A ball of white yarn rolls across the floor.
▪ A shopping trolley pushed along and then released will roll across the floor, gradually slowing down until it comes to rest.
▪ They roll grenades down floors of cinemas and blow up women and kids: does your heart bleed about that, Trevor?
head
▪ Instead of jerking on the lead, he gave a mighty push to the bear's head and the man-animal rolled over backwards.
▪ Some woman who bats him over the head with a rolling pin.
▪ Sir Paul sympathises with Mr Meeks ... but says it's inevitable that heads will roll.
▪ Noting the irony, Johnson just shook her head and rolled her eyes.
▪ There might have been hands in the gutter and heads rolling about under the lamplight too.
▪ There had been a ghastly failure of security, and heads had rolled.
▪ The boy had a large olive head and very glassy rolling eyes.
hill
▪ It is nestled into the verdant rolling hills some 25 kilometres north of Cape Coast still located on the Central Region.
▪ Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
▪ We rolled down the hill to the cemetery.
▪ Pickup trucks were rolling down the hill to the cove from upland.
▪ If rolled down a hill, the hollow-centred ball will reach the bottom quicker since it has a greater inertia.
▪ Before the boat swung around Ezra caught sight of the truck rolling down the hill to the wharf.
▪ The can rolled sideways down the hill and she scrabbled across the tent for it.
▪ Outside the store, the rolling hills of New Hampshire were aflame in scarlet, yellow, orange and gold.
rock
▪ The rock and roll global village.
▪ Finished digging, hauling rocks, and rolling and cajoling them into place-last of north wall built.
▪ On the verge of Connemara, we passed through a steep valley of rocks poised as if to roll down upon us.
▪ Yet no one who knew the man disputes that Robey might well have knocked down the self-proclaimed king of rock &038; roll.
▪ Only the tips of her tail-feathers were caught between the rocks as they rolled back together; and those were torn away.
▪ This was more ambitious than mere rock &038; roll.
side
▪ A trickle of sweat rolled down the side of Tom's face.
▪ She and Patrick roll Bob to one side, and she strips and replaces the linens.
▪ The girl had had her hands over her face and was rolling from side to side.
▪ After she finally dropped into bed, she noticed that she had trouble moving her legs when she rolled to her side.
▪ A wide pancake shaped black cloth hat with a huge brim rolled back on one side adorned his dark hair.
▪ Heat oil to 375 degrees and add egg rolls, flap side down.
▪ She rolled on to her side to let him pull down the zip of her dress.
sleeve
▪ He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
▪ He sequesters himself in a small working office, sleeves rolled up, tie off, reading mail, making overseas calls.
▪ Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up.
▪ A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.
▪ His sleeves were rolled almost to the shoulder and the right one bore the three gold chevrons denoting his rank.
▪ If I roll my jacket sleeves, they will roll theirs.
▪ The barman was a beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.
▪ She was barefoot and wearing a man's shirt over jeans, the sleeves rolled back on her thin arms.
tear
▪ Two tears rolled down his cheeks, followed by sniffs and heaves of the narrow chest.
▪ When my sister was upset, she would cry and great piteous tears would roll from her eyes.
▪ Hot, bitter tears rolled down her cheeks, and with them came back the noise of the street.
▪ He smiled, sensing an odd happiness welling up in her, even though tears began to roll down her cheeks.
▪ She did not observe a large tear rolling slowly down his cheek.
▪ Soon she found tears rolling down her face.
▪ I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all.
▪ The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.
thunder
▪ Lightning played across the front almost continually, and thunder rolled over the catamaran.
▪ A little bit of thunder rolled through the evening sky, far off.
▪ One hot late-summer evening as Virginia left Pack Meeting thunder began to roll across the sky.
▪ In the distance, another thunder clap rolled, this one more muffled than its predecessors.
▪ The thunder rolled away as Mr Beckenham stared, leaving the place eerily silent, and his heart still.
tongue
▪ This committee compromise is unlikely to roll off anyone's tongue.
▪ Answers rolled off her tongue with well. oiled ease.
▪ Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
▪ She took a swig and rolled it around her tongue like mouthwash.
welfare
▪ Hundreds of thousands end up on welfare rolls.
window
▪ It will be the one flying into Jacksonville with the windows rolled down.
▪ The sun was gone, but with the window rolled down I could feel the warm wind.
▪ His windows were rolled down, so there was nothing to obstruct my direct view of this scene.
■ VERB
keep
▪ Still liking it, still doing it, Gerry Marsden keeps rocking and rolling at the Apollo tonight.
▪ It is important to keep the wheels rolling; rolling wheels have traction.
▪ At what point does a state have a motive for keeping the smoking rolls up?
▪ And, the sales keep rolling in.
▪ I had the good sense to let go of the trumpet case and try and keep rolling out of range.
▪ The apparatus included a car that kept rolling in circles, an enormous block of ice and taped Chopin piano music.
▪ He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right.
▪ That passion is what keeps the missionary cycle rolling.
let
▪ Shame they couldn't have lifted the pitch and let it roll in.
▪ I shifted the transmission out of park and into drive, and let the car roll away from the curb.
▪ He let them roll between his hands.
▪ Get ready to let those good times roll.
▪ Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll.
▪ Shrugging off rational assurances, Guy let the warning sensations roll over him.
▪ Bring your knees back up to the centre and let them roll across your body over to your left side.
▪ Don't let your feet roll inwards and keep your knees over the toes!
set
▪ Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story.
▪ Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
▪ A push from a simple starter will set them rolling, after which their tractive tyres will accelerate them automatically.
▪ But with Nicklaus rumoured to be planning a quiet 1991, the Lee Trevino money-making machine looks set to roll on.
▪ Now the good times are set to roll again.
▪ Just waiting for some one to begin, to set the ball rolling.
▪ Q, a sharp twentysomething, set the ball rolling by applying the lessons of club culture to literature.
start
▪ So Meretz, whose head-on clash with Shas over education policy started this crisis rolling 11 months ago, had to go.
▪ Her words started the ball rolling.
▪ She started to roll up her sleeping-bag, then hesitated.
▪ When he gets really impatient, his keeper says, he starts rolling his head around or making snuffling noises.
▪ Hyperlink reference not valid., to start the ball rolling.
▪ And pretty soon, the royal carriage wheels started rolling over the Little People.
▪ The first section of netting was complete, so I asked Tam to start rolling out some barb.
▪ When they start rolling, you resume turning.
stop
▪ It was too late by this time to stop the presses rolling, and the first editions had already been despatched.
▪ Smitty stopped rolling about five feet short of the edge.
▪ When one rolled along the ground he picked it up and stood it on its end to stop it rolling.
▪ Kaufman opened the game with a 57-yard gallop and never stopped rolling.
▪ They put the catapult into position and placed wooden blocks in front of the wheels to stop it rolling into the sea.
▪ Not all the pranks end when the cameras stop rolling.
▪ Unless it is prodded and pulled by the government, what is to stop it rolling over into a more comfortable position?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop
▪ A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop.
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ And moments later he comes to a stop.
▪ As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
▪ He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
▪ It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
▪ Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop.
▪ When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.
heads will roll
▪ I rather think heads will roll.
▪ Sir Paul sympathises with Mr Meeks ... but says it's inevitable that heads will roll.
roll out the red carpet/give sb the red carpet treatment
set/start/keep the ball rolling
▪ Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story.
▪ And laughter is infectious ... so a little bit of effort on the small screen could start the ball rolling.
▪ Does that make a difference, or did he and others just start the ball rolling?
▪ He will keep the ball rolling.
▪ Her words started the ball rolling.
▪ To start the ball rolling, the government was asked to contribute £1 million.
▪ Volume 2 deals with general idioms e.g. keep the ball rolling, the proof of the pudding.
▪ Wolves play a similar style, and at times one yearned for some one to set the ball rolling ... literally.
sth is the new rock 'n' roll
trip/roll off the tongue
▪ A name which trips off the tongue.
▪ Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Roll the tortilla around the chicken and serve with salsa.
▪ I'm trying to teach my dog to roll over.
▪ One of the eggs rolled off the edge of the counter.
▪ Punks on the streets would roll drunks for small change.
▪ Quiet! The cameras are rolling!
▪ Ralph rolled onto his stomach.
▪ She rolled up the poster and put it in a cardboard tube.
▪ Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a 12-inch square.
▪ We had so much fun rolling stones down into the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But when electrical storms roll in, nothing is normal.
▪ It pitched a yard short, bit viciously and rolled back down the green shelf at the front of the green.
▪ Our driver rolled up his window and backed away, lightly tapping the front bumper of the car behind.
▪ People were looking as they rolled past, observing my little moment of theater.
▪ Still half concussed, Delaney rolled upright and staggered.
▪ The burr of reform still rolled in the Garnock Valley.
▪ The years may have rolled by, but the relationship between skis and soft snow has not changed.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electoral
▪ If you are not on the electoral roll you may get turned down for credit.
▪ They can not have their names on the electoral roll and, as a result, can not vote.
▪ Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes.
▪ Addresses don't have to be mentioned, they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name.
▪ Hoyte had twice extended the parliamentary session in 1991, ostensibly in order to allow new electoral rolls to be drawn up.
▪ Official funding would be made available for party political broadcasts and electoral rolls were to be updated.
▪ An estimated 40,000 names on a revised electoral roll were reported to be suspect.
▪ I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers, electoral rolls and telephone numbers.
hot
▪ She would always have two hot rolls in her bag.
■ NOUN
bread
▪ Mountains of bread rolls surrounded the urn.
▪ Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly.
▪ Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in.
▪ The chef makes tasty bread rolls and grows his own herbs.
call
▪ A roll call of just some of our people who have achieved something special.
▪ When the alphabetical roll call vote for speaker began, members dutifully voted for Gingrich or Gephardt until Rep.
▪ Price was reading the roll call.
▪ Throughout the hourlong roll call, Republicans looked grim.
▪ Meanwhile, a roll call was being taken.
▪ A stack of computer printouts is waiting, the road-kill roll call.
▪ And the long roll call begins.
▪ He made telephone calls to swing Congressmen right up to the roll call.
cheese
▪ Sarah carried her cup of coffee and cheese roll back to her chosen table and settled to work.
▪ She bit into her cheese roll.
▪ And double trouble from a Double Gloucester.The cheese roll that caused chaos.
dice
▪ If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn.
▪ If the dice roll is a 1 then the unit has been affected by Animosity.
▪ Blows in combat also suffer a -1 on the dice roll to hit.
drum
▪ And then, with a final drum roll, it was all over.
▪ Mickey Dolenz, part of the 1960s band the Monkees, will lead the drum roll.
▪ Next came a drum roll, followed by a wave and a thumbs-up sign from the newly-weds.
▪ The pre-recorded drum roll sounds and the sequined curtain flies up.
▪ One boy, a child, begins a steady drum roll.
▪ Starting lineup for the two-time defending world champion Houston Rockets recently has been, drum roll, please....
▪ Nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drum roll on an unrelated note.
film
▪ The press, in particular, printed sensational reports of the happenings at cinemas and concerts featuring rock and roll films and music.
▪ I was using the very fast 12-shot per roll film which estate agents use to make houses look good in the rain.
honor
▪ That semester, the student made the honor roll for the first time.
▪ Personal: An honor roll student with a 3.57 grade-point average last marking period.
kitchen
▪ I blot out unwanted runs, bleeds and blocks with highly textured kitchen roll.
▪ Invisible man Dress you child's face in bandages or white kitchen roll with sunglasses, black shoes and gloves.
▪ Next moment a large piece of kitchen roll had been shoved into her hand.
sausage
▪ The meal then followed and all had their fill of sausage rolls and crisps, washed down with delicious barley water.
▪ Dame Edna and sausage rolls come immediately to mind.
▪ The customary toasts will be cheered with soft drinks which will wash down a modest buffet of sausage rolls and sandwiches.
▪ Do you know what a sausage roll is?
▪ She at once offered Joe a cup of hot morning Bovril and a warm sausage roll, if he'd like.
▪ Not sausage rolls or cheesy biscuits or anything.
school
▪ For example in June, the percentage of pupils absent in individual schools ranged from 0% to 44% of the school roll.
▪ Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 percent of the school roll.
▪ Accident and school roll data have been analysed to identify those schools which have high casualty rates per head of school roll.
▪ At that time, school rolls were still rising and the challenge was to ensure enough accommodation.
▪ This approach would require improved provision of information from local government to the community and hence increased accessibility of school roll forecasts.
▪ In summary there is a need for a unified approach to school roll forecasting based on demographic data augmented by local information.
▪ This allocation requires information on the future demand for places in particular schools - school roll forecasts.
spring
▪ Please try to see the film, Arquette tells the restaurant, with all the fibrous texture of a spring roll.
toilet
▪ Not a piece of sticky-back plastic, a toilet roll or a Blue Peter badge in sight!
▪ Also provide a cover for the pan, towel, toilet roll and tissues.
▪ Her elder son's wife was a long-standing irritant, like an ill-perforated toilet roll.
▪ One was made using a toilet roll.
▪ Nathan gets and goes off in search of somewhere quiet, clutching a toilet roll and anxious anticipations.
▪ I suggest that the present handicap system should be printed on a couple of toilet rolls and used accordingly!
▪ But I see they opened a new toilet roll.
▪ You are simply not supposed to clap, in the same way as you are not meant to throw toilet rolls.
voter
▪ Lucie and Martin counties, voter rolls expanded by 9. 2 percent and 5. 6 percent, respectively.
▪ Despite his well-publicized death, Natali can still vote, the voter rolls say.
▪ Knock off the sludge everybody knows remains on the voter rolls, and that 72 percent pushes 90 percent.
welfare
▪ They spend ever more on job training for welfare recipients, yet welfare rolls continue to grow.
▪ This explains why even our most effective efforts to move people into jobs seem never to shrink the welfare rolls.
▪ They would begin with ready and contemptuous agreement that they are not on the welfare rolls.
▪ But the new statistics showed that welfare rolls dropped by 2. 76 million people in the past four years.
▪ When her father started abusing her again, she was forced to leave and return to the welfare rolls.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop
▪ A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop.
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ And moments later he comes to a stop.
▪ As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
▪ He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
▪ It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
▪ Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop.
▪ When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.
heads will roll
▪ I rather think heads will roll.
▪ Sir Paul sympathises with Mr Meeks ... but says it's inevitable that heads will roll.
let the good times roll
roll out the red carpet/give sb the red carpet treatment
sth is the new rock 'n' roll
trip/roll off the tongue
▪ A name which trips off the tongue.
▪ Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cinnamon roll
▪ His name was not on the voters' roll.
▪ Hot, fresh rolls were served throughout the meal.
▪ The roll is called to see which members are present.
▪ The school now has a roll of over 2,000 children.
▪ You have another roll, don't you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did I mention, I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic?
▪ Filled rolls with tea, coffee and soft drinks will be dispensed.
▪ Hymns and more hymns, and how Bonnie Jean and I would look at one another and roll our eyes in complicity.
▪ I tore the endpaper off a new roll of Tums.
▪ Our nod went to the mushroom version, a perfect complement to the rolls.
▪ The frequency and extent of the roll varies from day to day and from one set of conditions to another.
▪ There are three basic ways in which a property owner can remove a building from the project-based Section 8 housing rolls.
▪ When was the last time anybody saw hand towels or soap or a bog roll?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roll

Roll \Roll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rolling.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. Control, Roll, n., Rotary.]

  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; as, to 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; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

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

  4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

    The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe.
    --J. A. Symonds.

  5. To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

    Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies.
    --Tennyson.

  6. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

  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. (Geom.) 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 suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

  10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

    Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright.
    --Chaucer.

    To roll one's self, to wallow.

    To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.

    To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill.

Roll

Roll \Roll\, v. i.

  1. To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

    And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.
    --Shak.

  2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. ``The rolling chair.''
    --Dryden.

  3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

  4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

  5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

  6. To turn; to move circularly.

    And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.
    --Dryden.

  7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

    What different sorrows did within thee roll.
    --Prior.

  8. To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

    Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled.
    --Pope.

  9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

  10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

  11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

  12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

    To roll about, to gad abroad. [Obs.]

    Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about.
    --Chaucer.

Roll

Roll \Roll\, n. [F. r[^o]le a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus ? little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, v., and cf. R[^o]le, Rouleau, Roulette.]

  1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

  2. That which rolls; a roller. Specifically:

    1. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
      --Mortimer.

    2. 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.

  3. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. Specifically:

    1. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

      Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say.
      --Prior.

    2. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

      The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
      --Sir M. Hale.

      The roll and list of that army doth remain.
      --Sir J. Davies.

    3. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

    4. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

  4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

  5. (Naut.) 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.

  6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

  7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

  8. Part; office; duty; r[^o]le. [Obs.]
    --L'Estrange.

    Long roll (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line.

    Master of the rolls. See under Master.

    Roll call, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers.

    Rolls of court, of parliament (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body.

    To call the roll, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present.

    Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See List.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roll

early 13c., "rolled-up piece of parchment or paper" (especially one inscribed with an official record), from Old French rolle "document, parchment scroll, decree" (12c.), from Medieval Latin rotulus "a roll of paper" (source also of Spanish rollo, Italian ruollo), from Latin rotula "small wheel," diminutive of rota "wheel" (see rotary).\n

\nMeaning "a register, list, catalogue" is from late 14c., common from c.1800. Meaning "dough which is rolled before baking" is first recorded mid-15c. Sense of "act of rolling" is from 1743. Meaning "quantity of material rolled up" is from late 14c.; meaning "quantity of paper money" is from 1846; sense of "quantity of (rolled) film" is from 1890. Meaning "act of sexual intercourse" is attested from 1942 (roll in the hay), from roll (v.). Dutch rol, German Rolle, Danish rulle, etc. are from French.

roll

c.1300 "turn over and over, move by rotating" (intransitive); late 14c. as "to move (something) by turning it over and over;" from Old French roeller "roll, wheel round" (Modern French rouler), from Medieval Latin rotulare, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota "wheel" (see rotary). Related: Rolled; rolling.\n

\nOf sounds (such as thunder) somehow suggestive of a rolling ball, 1590s; of a drum from 1680s. Of eyes, from late 14c. Of a movie camera, "to start filming," from 1938. Sense of "rob a stuporous drunk" is from 1873, from the action required to get to his pockets. To roll up "gather, congregate" is from 1861, originally Australian. To be on a roll is from 1976. To roll with the punches is a metaphor from boxing (1940). Heads will roll is a Hitlerism:If our movement is victorious there will be a revolutionary tribunal which will punish the crimes of November 1918. Then decapitated heads will roll in the sand. [1930]

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Wiktionary
roll

n. 1 The act of rolling, or state of being rolled. 2 That which rolls; a roller. 3 # A heavy cylinder used to break clods. 4 # One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill. 5 # That which is rolled up. 6 # 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 # A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form. 9 # A cylindrical twist of tobacco. 10 A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. 11 (context nautical aviation English) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitch; or the equivalent in an aircraft. 12 (context nautical English) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis. 13 A heavy, reverberatory sound. 14 The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. 15 (context obsolete English) Part; office; duty; rôle. 16 A measure of parchments, containing five dozen. 17 the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis 18 The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice. 19 A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (qualifier: and especially in the phrase ''on a roll''). 20 A training match for a fighting dog. vb. 1 (context ergative English) 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. 2 (context transitive English) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over. 3 (context transitive English) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with ''up''. 4 (context intransitive English) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball. 5 (context ergative English) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling. 6 (context ergative English) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out. 7 To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers. 8 (context intransitive English) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin. 9 (context ergative English) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

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WordNet
roll

  1. n. rotary motion of an object around its own axis; "wheels in axial rotation" [syn: axial rotation, axial motion]

  2. a list of names; "his name was struck off the rolls" [syn: roster]

  3. a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore [syn: roller, rolling wave]

  4. photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light

  5. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles [syn: coil, whorl, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll]

  6. a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag" [syn: bankroll]

  7. small rounded bread either plain or sweet [syn: bun]

  8. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn: peal, pealing, rolling]

  9. the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously [syn: paradiddle, drum roll]

  10. a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) [syn: scroll]

  11. anything rolled up in cylindrical form

  12. the act of throwing dice [syn: cast]

  13. walking with a rolling gait

  14. a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude

  15. the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

roll

  1. v. move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side" [syn: turn over]

  2. move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds" [syn: wheel]

  3. occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past" [syn: undulate]

  4. flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper" [syn: roll out]

  5. emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"

  6. wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" [syn: wind, wrap, twine] [ant: unwind]

  7. begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"

  8. shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette"

  9. execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"

  10. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity [syn: hustle, pluck]

  11. move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" [syn: undulate, flap, wave]

  12. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "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" [syn: wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

  13. move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"

  14. cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words" [syn: revolve]

  15. pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; "She rolls her r's"

  16. boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" [syn: seethe]

  17. take the shape of a roll or cylinder; "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"

  18. show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" [syn: roll up]

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Wikipedia
Roll

Roll or Rolls may refer to:

Roll (Anne McCue album)

Roll is the third album by Australian alternative country musician Anne McCue. Her first album for Messenger Records , it was released to critical acclaim in 2003.

The album was actually released in 2004 and was picked by Bob Harris (BBC, Old Grey Whistle Test) as the best album of that year.

The song 'Stupid' was included on the Time Life Box Set '4 decades Of Folk Rock' alongside Bob Dylan and The Byrds.

Roll (gymnastics)

A roll is the most basic and fundamental skill in gymnastics. There are many variations in the skill. Rolls are similar to flips in the fact that they are a complete rotation of the body. although, the rotation of the roll is usually made on the ground while a flip is made in mid air with hips passing over the head and without any hands touching the ground. Rolls also help recover from a fall safely.

Roll (Emerson Drive album)

Roll is the seventh studio album by Canadian country music group Emerson Drive. It was released on October 30, 2012 via Open Road Recordings. The album's first single, " She's My Kind of Crazy," reached the top forty on the Canadian Hot 100.

Roll was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno Awards. It was also nominated for Album of the Year at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards.

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Usage examples of "roll".

After a mere heartbeat of stillness, Abie could just barely make out the steady roll of a drum.

Gritting her teeth against the pain, Abigail rolled to the side that Jane was directing her.

The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.

Jessy agreed absently while her gaze took in the broad expanse of plains before them, rugged and rolling into forever.

Lead truck following Aby, rolling down to the fatal turn, where the woods came near the road.

The box bearing the aconitine label and the pills had all rolled out of the china umbrella stand, and he had taken it for granted that the pills belonged in the box.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

The children before him are the ones whose names adorn the honor roll.

In front of the advancing British there lay a rolling hill, topped by a further one.

As you shape your customer profile, recognize that your advertising must reach your largest customer group and must also convey specialties that exist in your store, such as jazz, blues, rock V roll, rap or classical.

It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less.

The Aenean closest to Ivar trembled, rolled over and over, came to a halt and screamed.

With that Bill lays his arm on him to raise him up, for he said he was squeezed as flat as a pancake, and afore Nabb knew where he was, Bill rolled him right over and was atop of him.

Across the road, beyond the shuttered se afront kiosks, the sky was a dirty grey mass of rolling clouds, imitating the swell and froth of the sea.

He also caught sight of a helicopter being rolled out onto the helo deck aft as he pulled his eye away from the eyepiece, snapped down his eyepatch and lowered the periscope.