Roll vs Do - What's the difference?
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(ergative) 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.
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up .
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
(ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
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, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
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, title= (chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(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.
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
(US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
* 2006 , Chris McKenna, "Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens", Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321].
(gaming, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
(gaming) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
To have a rolling aspect.
(gaming) To create a new character in a role-playing game.
(computing) To generate a random number.
To turn over and over.
To tumble in gymnastics.
(nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
To beat up.
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(slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
(slang) To betray secrets.
(informal) To act.
* 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):
(slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
* 2000 , Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance , Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595156115, page 15:
* 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3,
* 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 978-0-7391-1455-1
(of a camera) To film.
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, title= To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
* Prior
To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
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The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
That which rolls; a roller.
# A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
# One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
# That which is rolled up.
# A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
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# Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
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# A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
# A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on 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.
(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
A heavy, reverberatory sound.
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:
the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .
A training match for a fighting dog.
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, passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
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To perform; to execute.
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, title= (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:
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* Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1
(transitive) To suffice.
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, passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To be reasonable or acceptable.
To have (as an effect).
To fare; to succeed or fail.
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, title= (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
To cook.
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, passage=It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.}}
* {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch
, passage=We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.}}
* {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99
, passage=Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.}}
To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
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, passage=After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London
* {{quote-news, 1968, July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, Nice Place to Visit, New York Magazine
, passage=No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker
To treat in a certain way.
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, passage=They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince;
* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,
* {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50
, passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
* Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34
To spend (time) in jail.
To impersonate or depict.
(slang) To kill.
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, passage=The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.}}
(slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )
* {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus
, passage=Demetrius'': "Villain, what hast thou done?"
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
''Aaron : "Villain, I have done thy mother."}}* {{quote-book, 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page=81, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q2cQiUtWftwC&pg=PA82
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* {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84
, passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}
To cheat or swindle.
* De Quincey
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
(intransitive) To finish.
(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).
* 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections
(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
* 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
(informal) To make or provide.
(colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' '' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
(informal) A hairdo.
(colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument. (rfex)
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts ).
(obsolete) A deed; an act.
(archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
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As nouns the difference between roll and do
is that roll is role while do is the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).roll
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.
- The pastry rolls well.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
- Let's roll !
- Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”
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- The crowd was rolling' on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was ' rolling .
- So the quesion 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
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- The years roll on.
- what different sorrows did within thee roll
- The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.
Derived terms
* let's roll * rollable * roller * roll in the aisles * roll off * roll off the tongue * roll on * roll out * roll-out * roll-over * roll over * roll the dice * roll upNoun
(en noun)- the roll of a ball
- Look at the roll of the waves.
- to pass rails through the rolls
- a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.
- The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
- The roll and list of that army doth remain.
- a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon
- Hear the roll of cannon.
- Hear the roll of thunder.
- Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.
- Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
- Make your roll.
- Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
- He is on a roll tonight.
Derived terms
* bread roll * enrol, enroll * roll cage * roll call * roll-to-roll * sausage roll * Swiss rollSee also
* RollsExternal links
* * English ergative verbs ----do
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(wikipedia do)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
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The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing ",
- Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke
- My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.
- a fatal plague which many did to die
- We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
- "Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
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- Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.
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- They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
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- He was not to be done , at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
- I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
- ...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.
- Do they do haircuts there?
- Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
Usage notes
* In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use and verbs had a distinct second-person singular present-tense form, the verb .Antonyms
* don'tDerived terms
* can do with * do a… * doable * do by * do by halves * do down * doer * do for * do in * do it * do right by * done * do-over * do somebody wrong * do the trick * do time * do up * do well by doing good * do with mirrors * do without * fordo * misdo * redo * overdo * to do with * underdo * undoSee also
Noun
(en noun)- We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do , in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
- Nice do !
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- A great deal of do , and a great deal of trouble.