roll
/ɹoʊl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
verb
To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
Example Sentences
- "To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel."
- "The child will roll on the floor."
- "Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down."
- "And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls."
- "The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock."
- "To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball."
Etymology
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. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹoʊl/
- British English: /ɹəʊl/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
rolls (present, singular)
rolling (participle, present)
rolled (participle, past)
rolled (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
rolled (first person, past)
rollest (archaic, present)
rolled (past, second person)
rolledst (archaic, past)
rolleth (archaic, present)
rolled (past, singular)