Noun: roll
Sample Sentences
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the roll of a ball
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Look at the roll of the waves.
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the roll of her eyes
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Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean. [1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:]
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a roll of banknotes
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to pass rails through the rolls
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Hear the roll of cannon.
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There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.
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Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
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The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.
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Make your roll.
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Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
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He is on a roll tonight.
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That was a good roll.
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She has a bombproof roll.
Nouns inflected like roll
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.
2. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow. See: Latin Nouns '
rotula', Latin Nouns '
rollāre'.
Verbs referencing "roll"
Spanish Nouns
rollo, Spanish Nouns
ruejo.