Roll
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The word roll has these meanings:
- A thin flexible solid wound around a centre.
- Something wrapped around a tube, e.g. toilet roll.
- Paper strips wrapped around a thin quilling tool, e.g. quilling.
- In food:
- A bread roll.
- A roll can refer to other foods; sausage roll, spring roll, egg roll.
- In the atmosphere:
- A roll cloud, usually found in the lee of mountains.
- In the boundary layer, the horizontal vortices that usually fill the layer, also known as organized large eddies.
- In transport:
- Bank or roll, an aerobatic manoeuvre, also see flight dynamics.
- The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. See flight dynamics.
- The smooth wheels fitted to a steamroller or motor roller.
- In music:
- In phonetics:
- An alternative name for a trill.
- A register, catalogue, or list of people (See also roster):
- a list of eligible voters on an electoral roll.
- in video and movie terminology, a roll is vertically moving text, as in credits roll.
- the collective noun for the pupils of a school e.g. "There are 1240 pupils in the school roll."
- A bank roll, a paper holder for coins.
- A wrapped holder for similarly shaped items, such as a candy roll
- A term for excess fat on someone's body.
- A Kayak roll, the manoeuvre used to right a kayaker that has capsized.
- A heavy machine used in a steel mill.
- Roll stepping, a movement used by marching bands.
- To rob a person who is in a helpless state.
- A slang term for a pill of MDMA (ecstasy), or being under the effects thereof (rolling).
- Proper names, such as people and companies:
- Rolls Corporation, an audio electronics manufacturer company in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Rolls fast-food restaurant, a Finnish chain.
- Bob Roll, an American professional cyclist and commentator.
- Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and a pioneer aviator.
- Roll, a female character in the Mega Man series of video games.
