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say it: rohl
roll is a verb and noun meaning "move by turning over or rotating". It is pronounced /ˈɹoʊl/ — rohl. It carries 33 recorded senses.
move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
“The President's convoy rolled past the crowds”
emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
“The thunder rolled”
“rolling drums”
begin operating or running
“The cameras were rolling”
“The presses are already rolling”
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”
rotary motion of an object around its own axis
“wheels in axial rotation”
a list of names
“his name was struck off the rolls”
a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
small rounded bread either plain or sweet
the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
walking with a swaying gait
a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roll come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.