Roll
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The word roll has these meanings:
- A bank roll, a paper holder for coins.
- A friendly term for excess fat on someone's body
- A bread roll.
- A roll can refer to other foods; sausage roll, spring roll, egg roll.
- Something wrapped around a tube, e.g., toilet roll.
- Bank or roll, an aerobatic maneuver, 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
- A heavy machine used in a steel mill.
- A register or catalogue, e.g. Electoral roll.
- Roll, a female character in the Mega Man series of video games.
- in video and movie terminology, a roll is vertically moving text, as in credits roll.
- Rolling someone's feet, as in marching band, see glide step.
- To rob a person who is in a helpless state.
- A roll cloud.
- A slang name for a pill of MDMA (ecstacy), or being under the effects thereof (rolling).
- 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.
- A Drumroll is a technique employed by percussionists to produce a sustained sound from a drum
See also:
fr:Roulis
