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All 4 letters words made out of roll

roll orll rlol lrol olrl lorl roll orll rlol lrol olrl lorl rllo lrlo rllo lrlo llro llro ollr lolr ollr lolr llor llor

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word roll. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in roll.

Definitions and meaning of roll

roll

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊl/, [ɹ̠ʷɒʊɫ]
• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹ̠ʷɒʊɫ]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹol/, /ɹoʊl/, [ɹ̠ʷoɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophone: role

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

1. (ergative) 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.
2. (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

3. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.

4. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

5. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.

6. (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.

7. (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
8. (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
9. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.
   1. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.

10. (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
11. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
12. (transitive) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
13. (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
14. (dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.
    1. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

    2. (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

    3. (computing) To generate a random number.
15. (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
16. (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
    • 19th c., Rolling Down to Old Maui (anon.)

      We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground / Rolling down to Old Maui

    • early 20th c., Randy Dandy-O (anon.)

      Now we are ready to head for the Horn / Way-hey, roll and go!

17. (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
18. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

19. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.

20. (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
    • a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN

      So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]

21. (transitive, intransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.

22. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
23. (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.
24. (figurative, intransitive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

    The years roll on.

25. (intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
26. (figurative, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone
27. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

    The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

28. (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

29. (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

30. (transitive) To create a customized version of.
31. (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
32. (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

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Translations

Noun

roll (plural rolls)

1. The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

2. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
3. Something which rolls.
   1. A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
   2. One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

4. A swagger or rolling gait.
5. A heavy, reverberatory sound.

6. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
7. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
8. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
10. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

    Coordinate terms: yaw, pitch

11. An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.

12. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

13. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).

14. A training match for a fighting dog.
15. (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

16. (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

17. (finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rolle, from Old French rolle, role, roule, from Medieval Latin rotulus (“a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a paper or parchment rolled up”); as such, it is a doublet of role and rotulus.

Noun

roll (plural rolls)

1. That which is rolled up.

2. A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
3. An official or public document; a register; a record.
   • 1713 Sir M. Hale, The History of the Common Law of England (posthumously published)

     As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower

4. A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
7. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
8. (obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.
9. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Rolls
• welt

Further reading

• “roll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “roll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

roll m (genitive singular roll, nominative plural rollanna)

1. roll

Declension

Verb

roll (present analytic rollann, future analytic rollfaidh, verbal noun rolladh, past participle rollta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) roll
   1. (transitive) form into a roll

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• rollaigh, rolláil

Derived terms

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “roll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “roll” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “roll” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

roll c

1. role
2. roll (the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis)

Declension

Derived terms

• (part): huvudroll, huvudrollsinnehavare, karaktärsroll, könsroll, rollfördelning, rollista, rollspel, spela någon roll , det spelar ingen roll, titelroll, yrkesroll
• (rotation): tunnelroll

Further reading

• roll in Svensk ordbok.