Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French roller, from Vulgar Latin rotulare, from Latin rotulus
Pronunciation :
Function : verb
Date : 14th century
1. rotating, turning over and over; curling, winding up. act of moving by turning over and over; act of curling up; act of winding up; perilous action of throwing heavy items from the rear of a moving car. rolling\roll"ing\ , a.
2. rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
3. moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
4. having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. [u.s.]rolling bridge. see:
the note under drawbridge.rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship. bourne.rolling fire (mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand.rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact.rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc.rolling press. (a) a machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers. (b) a printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.rolling stock, orrolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.rolling tackle (naut.), tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily. h. dana, jr.rolling adj.
5. characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative].
6. uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in spanish" [syn: rolled, trilled].
7. moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids" [syn: billowing, tumbling] n 1: a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) [syn: peal, pealing, roll] 2: the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park" 3: propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling].
8. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
9. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
10. Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park".
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
14. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
18. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
19. To apply to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
20. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
21. 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.
22. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
23. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
24. To fall or tumble; with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
25. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
26. To turn; to move circularly.
27. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
28. 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.
29. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
30. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
31. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
32. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
33. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
34. That which rolls; a roller.
35. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
36. 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.
37. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
38. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
39. Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
40. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
41. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
42. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
43. 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.
44. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
45. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
46. Part; office; duty; rôle. the act of rolling something a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude walking with a rolling gait anything rolled up in cylindrical form photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light a list of names; "his name was struck off the rolls" execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped" show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" take the shape of a roll or cylinder; "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well" shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette" pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; "She rolls her r's" begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling" move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side" 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" move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas" 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" move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums" occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past".
47. 1. Rolling hills are small hills with gentle slopes that extend a long way into the distance. the rolling countryside of south western France.
48. emphasis If you say that someone is rolling in it or is rolling in money, you mean that they are very rich. = loaded. In technology, the main method of forming molten metals, glass, or other substances into shapes that are small in cross-section in comparison with their length, such as bars, sheets, rods, rails, and girders. Rolling is the most widely used method of shaping metals and is particularly important in the manufacture of steel. The process consists of passing the metal between pairs of rollers revolving at the same speed but in opposite directions and spaced so that the distance between them is slightly less than the thickness of the metal.
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