Word Finder - rolls

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

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Look at the roll of the waves.

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A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

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Something which rolls.

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A swagger or rolling gait.

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A heavy, reverberatory sound.

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Hear the roll of cannon.

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

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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 pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

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The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.

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The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

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Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

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The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

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Make your roll.

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A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).

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He is on a roll tonight.

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A training match for a fighting dog.

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(paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

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That was a good roll.

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(paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized.

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She has a bombproof roll.

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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.

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To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

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To turn over and over.

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The child will roll on the floor.

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To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

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

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To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

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

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To roll up the map for shipping.

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To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.

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The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

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

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This river will roll its waters to the ocean.

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

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To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.

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

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to roll a field;  to roll paste;  to roll steel rails.

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To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.

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The pastry rolls well.

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To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

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To leave or begin a journey.

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I want to get there early; let's roll.

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To compete, especially with vigor.

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OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!

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To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

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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.

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

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To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

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I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.

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To throw dice.

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To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

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If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

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To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

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I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.

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To generate a random number.

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(of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.

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(in folk songs) To travel by sailing.

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To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.

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To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

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The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.

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To betray secrets.

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He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.

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To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).

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(of a camera) To (cause to) film.

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It's time to roll the cameras.

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To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

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To have a rolling aspect.

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the hills rolled on

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To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

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The years roll on.

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

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To move and cause an effect on someone

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To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

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The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

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To utter with an alveolar trill.

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Many languages roll their r's.

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To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

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The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.

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To create a customized version of.

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To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

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That which is rolled up.

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a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

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

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An official or public document; a register; a record

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A catalogue or list

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A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

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a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

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A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

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A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

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Part; office; duty; rôle.

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A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

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(paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

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That was a good roll.

The pattern is impressed Upon the soft sheet by a printing roller which is brought down upon the glass as it leaves the main rolls.

Look for level ground - Fido will not be comfortable if his house rocks when he rolls.

It continued to be levied until 1163, in which year the name Danegeld appears for the last time in the Rolls.

Three anonymous Latin lives were published by Colgan in his Trias Thaumaturga (Louvain, 1645), and there exists an 1 ith-century Irish life in three parts published by Whitley Stokes for the Rolls series (1887).

The sermons of Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761) have a place in history, and those of Joseph Butler (1692-1752), the Rolls Sermons of 1726, have great philosophical importance.

His wife, Mary Elizabeth Campbell, the eldest daughter of the first Baron Abinger by one of the Campbells of Kilmorey, Argyllshire, whom he had married in 1821, had in 1836 been created Baroness Stratheden in recognition of the withdrawal of his claim to the mastership of the rolls.

The Indians whose names were " rightly contained " in the voters' rolls at the date of the act retain the franchise.

His place as a master in critical scholarship and historical exposition is decided beyond debate by the nineteen volumes which he edited for the Rolls series of Chronicles and Memorials.

What that is cannot be determined without taking into account the prefaces to some of the volumes which he edited for the Rolls series.

Among the most notable examples of his work for the Rolls series are the prefaces to Roger of Hoveden, the Gesta regum of William of Malmesbury, the Gesta Henrici II., and the Memorials of St.

At Pirna the Elbe leaves behind it the stress and turmoil of the Saxon Switzerland, rolls through Dresden, with its noble river terraces, and finally, beyond Meissen, enters on its long journey across the North German plain, touching Torgau, Wittenberg, Magdeburg, Wittenberge, Hamburg, Harburg and Altona on the way, and gathering into itself the waters of the Mulde and Saale from the left, and those of the Schwarze Elster, Havel and Elde from the right.

The Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms 1 of the 11th century, published in the Rolls series of medieval chronicles and memorials, admirably illustrate the mixture of magic and superstition with the relics of ancient science which constituted monastic medicine.

In Anglo-Saxon and Norman times it possessed a mint, and it is called a borough in the Pipe Rolls of Henry II., but it was not then in a flourishing condition.

It has been found in practice advantageous to prepare the canes for crushing in the mills, as above described, by passing them through a pair of preparing rolls which are grooved or indented in such manner as to draw in and flatten down the canes, no matter in which way they are thrown or heaped upon the canecarrier, and thus prepare them for feeding the first mill of the series; thus the work of crushing is carried on uninterruptedly and without constant stoppages from the mills choking, as is often the case when the feed is heavy and the canes are not prepared.

These attachments, first invented by Jeremiah Howard, and described in the United States Patent Journal in 1858, are simply hydraulic rams fitted into the side or top caps of the mill, and pressing against the side or top brasses in such a manner as to allow the side or top roll to move away from the other rolls, while an accumulator, weighted to any desired extent, keeps a constant pressure on each of the rams. An objection to the top cap arrangement is, that if the volume or feed is large enough to lift the top roll from the cane roll, it will simultaneously lift it from the megass roll, so that the megass will not be as well pressed as it ought to be;' and an objection to the side cap arrangement on the megass roll as well as to the top cap arrangement is, that in case more canes are fed in at one end of the rolls than at the other, the roll will be pushed out farther at one end than at the other; and though it may thus avoid a breakdown of the rolls, it is apt, in so doing, to break the ends off the teeth of the crown wheels by putting them out of line with one another.

The use of preparing rolls with corrugations, to crush and equalize the feed of canes to the mill, or to the first of a series of mills, has become general.

The Krajewski crusher has two such E steel rolls, with V-shaped corrugations extending longi tudinally across them.

These rolls run at a speed about 30% greater than the speed of the first mill, to which they deliver the canes well crushed and flattened, forming a close mat of pieces of cane 5 to 6 in.

The leaves, when stripped from the stalks, are made into rolls and subjected to great pressure, which is released daily to allow the leaves to absorb their expressed juice.

In making cigars by the hand, the operator rolls together a sufficient quantity of material to form the filling of one cigar, and experience enables him or her to select very uniform quantities.

Cigarettes consist of small rolls of fine cut tobacco wrapped in a covering of thin tough paper specially made for such use.

He was knighted by King James in 1603, and in 1614 was appointed master of the rolls, an office which he held till his death on the 18th of April 1636.

There are, besides these, a large number of private schools, which in 1906 carried about 22,000 pupils on their rolls, or three times the number in the public primary schools.

The Yamato-Tosa artists painted in all styles, but that which was the speciality of the school, to be found in nearly all the historical rolls bequeathed to us by their leaders, was a lightly-touched outline filled in with flat and bright body-colors, in which verdigris-green played a great part.

The Pipe Rolls (1194-1203) show that Robert de Cardinan, lord of Restormel, paid ten marks yearly for having a market at Lostwithiel.

The scope of the archaeologist's studies must include every department of the ancient history of man as preserved in antiquities of whatever character, be they tumuli along the Baltic, fossil skulls and graven bones from the caves of France, the flint implements, pottery, and mummies of Egypt, tablets and bas-reliefs from Mesopotamia, coins and sculptures of Greece and Rome, or inscriptions, waxen tablets, parchment rolls, and papyri of a relatively late period of classical antiquity.

After Cromwell's death, the officers, having determined to recall the "Rump" Parliament, assembled at Lenthall's house at the Rolls (6th May 1659), to desire him to send out the writs.

In spite of Monk's recommendation, he was not elected by Oxford University for the Convention Parliament, nor was he allowed by the king, though he had sent him a present of 3000, to remain master of the rolls.

It was first edited by John Selden in 1623 and, with Eadmer's Vita Anselmi, has been edited by Martin Rule for the "Rolls Series" (London, 1884).

Olivier introduced screw presses for striking coins, together with rolls for reducing the cast bars and machines for punching-out round disks from flattened sheets of metal, in Paris in 1553.

At first the rolls were driven by workmen by means of cranks, but later they were worked by horses, mules or water-power.

Recently the practice of driving rolls by electricity has been growing, the advantage being that each pair of rolls can be driven independently without the intervention of cumbrous shafting.

The cast bars are reduced to the thickness of the coin by repeated passages between rolls.

They are divided into breaking-down and finishing rolls, the latter being of smaller diameter than the former.

The power required for breaking down mint bars amounts to from 25 to 35 h.p. The bars are fed to the rolls by hand.

Heavy pinches are applied at first, the space between the rolls being diminished by a hand-screw of ter each passage of the bars through them.

When the bars are nearly to gauge, light pinches are given, the power required by finishing rolls being about 5 h.p. only.

By repeated passages through the rolls the bars are hardened, and to facilitate further reduction they are usually softened by annealing before being passed to the finishing rolls.

At the Vienna mint the practice has been to anneal silver bars after each passage through the rolls.

In some mints the drag-bench or draw-bench is used after the rolls to equalize the thickness of the fillets.

If the blank is too heavy the fillet may of course be passed through the rolls again.

The increase of copyhold under Abbot John de Rutherwyk led to discontent, the tenants in 1381 rising and burning the rolls.

The assessment rolls of the county assessor are subject to alteration by the board of county commissioners sitting as a county board of equalization and the assessments as between counties are subject to alteration by the state board of equalization.

If it revolves about a vertical axis d its centre of gravity must always lie in that axis; if it rolls the centre of gravity must always lie over the e abutment.

The chief authority on Peckham as archbishop of Canterbury, is the Registrum fratris Johannis Peckham, edited by C. Trice Martin for the Rolls Series (London, 1882-1885).

In 1849 he had become a Q.C.; and in 1851 he took his seat in the Rolls Court, where he soon obtained a leading practice, and was engaged in many of the most important cases in the Court of Chancery.

Peter Langtoft's French version was edited by Thomas Wright for the "Rolls Series" in 1866.

To this the dietines, or local diets, of Great Poland, and Little Poland, agreed, but at the last moment the whole project foundered on the question who was the proper custodian of the new assessment rolls, and the king had to be content with the renewal of former subsidies, varying from twelve to fifteen groats per hide of land for three years.

Slabs are also manufactured, and, being readily cut, planed, dressed and enamelled, are used for chimney pieces, billiard tables, wall linings, cisterns, paving, tomb-stones, ridge rolls, electrical switch-boards and various other architectural and industrial purposes.

There follow (in the Hebrew Bible) the five short books, which, as explained above, are now known by the Jews as the Megilloth, or " Rolls," viz.