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(noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) |
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Related Words: actuation, propulsion |
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(verb) execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped" |
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Related Words: tumble |
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(verb) shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette" |
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Related Words: form, shape |
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(noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude |
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Related Words: airplane maneuver, barrel roll, flight maneuver, snap roll |
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(noun) walking with a rolling gait |
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Related Words: gait |
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(verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ "She rolls her r's". |
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Related Words: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say |
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(verb) begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling" |
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Related Words: function, go, operate, run, work |
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(verb) to rotate or cause to rotate: "The child rolled down the hill"; "She rolled the ball her eyes at his words" |
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Synonyms: revolve, turn over |
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Related Words: turn |
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(verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums" |
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Related Words: go, sound |
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(verb) occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past" |
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Synonyms: undulate |
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(noun) a roll of photographic film |
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Related Words: film, photographic film |
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(noun) a list of names; "his name was struck off the rolls" |
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Synonyms: roster |
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Related Words: batting order, card, church roll, death-roll, lineup, list, listing, muster roll, rota, waiting list |
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(verb) boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething" |
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Synonyms: seethe |
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Related Words: boil, churn, moil, roil |
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(noun) the act of throwing dice |
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Synonyms: cast |
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Related Words: natural, throw |
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(verb) flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper" |
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Synonyms: roll out |
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Related Words: cog, flatten, mill |
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(verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle |
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Synonyms: wheel |
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Related Words: bowl, go, locomote, move, travel, troll |
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(noun) a cylinder that revolves |
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Synonyms: roller |
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Related Words: cylinder, garden roller, paint roller, platen, sprocket, trundle |
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(noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) |
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Synonyms: scroll |
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Related Words: Dead Sea scrolls, holograph, manuscript |
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(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
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Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
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Related Words: moving ridge, wave |
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(noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously |
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Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
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Related Words: sound |
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(noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet |
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Synonyms: bun |
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Related Words: Parker House roll, Vienna roll, bagel, bread, breadstuff, brioche, clover-leaf roll, coffee roll, crescent roll, croissant, frankfurter bun, hamburger bun, hamburger roll, hard roll, hotdog bun, kaiser roll, onion roll, soft roll, staff of life, sweet roll |
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(noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.); "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag" |
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Synonyms: bankroll |
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Related Words: cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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(verb) wrap around, move around |
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Synonyms: wind, wrap |
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Related Words: ball, clew, clue, coil, curl, displace, loop, move, reel, spool |
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(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and esp. underhanded activity |
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Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
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Related Words: steal |
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(noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder) |
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Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
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Related Words: sound |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles |
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Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
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Related Words: round shape, verticil |
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(noun) a complete turn; "the plane made three rotations before it crashed" |
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Synonyms: gyration, revolution, rotation |
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Related Words: spin, turn, turning, wallow |
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