Roll vs List - What's the difference?

Roll is a synonym of list.

As nouns the difference between roll and list

is that roll is role while list is cunning; craft.

roll

English

Verb

(en verb)

(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.

* Shakespeare

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls', and '''rolls''', and ' rolls .

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

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 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.

The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.

(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.

The pastry rolls well.

(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

(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].

"This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.

(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.

(slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

(slang) To betray secrets.

(informal) To act.

* 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):

Let's roll !

(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:

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.”

* 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3, page 169:

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 .

* 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

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

(of a camera) To film.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 15, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , passage=So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.}}

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

The years roll on.

To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

* Prior

what different sorrows did within thee roll

To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " 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 up

Noun

(en noun)

The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.

the roll of a ball

Look at the roll of the waves.

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.

to pass rails through the rolls

# That which is rolled up.

a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

# A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

#* Prior

Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.

# Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

#* Sir M. Hale

The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.

#* Sir J. Davies

The roll and list of that army doth remain.

# A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon

# 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.

Hear the roll of cannon.

Hear the roll of thunder.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:

Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.

the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis

Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

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

Make your roll.

Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.

A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .

He is on a roll tonight.

A training match for a fighting dog.

Derived terms

* bread roll * enrol, enroll * roll cage * roll call * roll-to-roll * sausage roll * Swiss roll

External links

* * English ergative verbs ----

list

English

(wikipedia list)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), mostly from (etyl) gave rise to the sense of "catalogue of names" by circa 1600; it was influenced by (etyl) liste'' or (etyl) ''lista (both meaning "border, band; strip of paper"), which are themselves from the Germanic word.

Noun

(en noun)

A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

* Shakespeare:

gartered with a red and blue list

Material used for cloth selvage.

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=(Arthur Conan Doyle), title=The Naval Treaty, page=681, publisher=Norton 2005,

passage=The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.}}

(in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1, :

With truncheon tipp'd with iron head, / The warrior to the lists he led.

* (Alexander Pope)

In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

* {{quote-book, year=1819, author=(Walter Scott), title=(Ivanhoe),

passage=William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.}}

A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself.

* Francis Bacon:

He was the ablest emperor of all the list .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.

(computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

(obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.

* Shakespeare

The very list , the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.

(obsolete) A stripe.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.

(tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* association list * blacklist * bucket list * bullet list * checklist * clout list * definition list * grocery list * hit list * laundry list * listicle * list price * mailing list * material list * punch list * set list * short list * stop list * to-do list * waiting list * whitelist * wine list * wish list

Verb

(en verb)

To create or recite a list.

To place in listings.

(obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

(obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

* Walter Scott, The Waverly Novels :

"I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.

To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

to list a door

* Alfred Tennyson:

The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

(carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

to list a board

Derived terms

* delist * interlist

Etymology 2

From (etyl) liste, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l), (l).

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

* 1877 , James Clarke & Co, The literary world :

In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.

* 1893 , Solomon Caesar, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs :

"[...] The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."

* 1897 , Lilian Winser, Lays and legends of the Weald of Kent :

For when the guileful monster smiled Snakes left their holes and hissed, — And stroking soft his silken beard Raised creatures full of list .

* 1991 , Alexander L. Ringer, The Early romantic era :

The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List ... (List = cunning); [...].

* 1992 , University of Reading. Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading medieval studies :

The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, [...]

* 2000 , Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Peter Schreiner, Polypleuros nous :

It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel, as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list ."

* 2008 , Jon B. Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The magician in medieval German literature :

One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.

Etymology 3

From (listen).

Verb

(poetic) To listen.

* 1607 , iv 3 :

Peace, what noise? / List', ' list ! / Hark! / Music i' the air.

(poetic) To listen to.

* Shakespeare:

Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, / If with too credent ear you list his songs.

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsV/ListWII.html]

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To tilt to one side.

the ship listed to port

(nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

the steady wind listed the ship

Etymology 5

(etyl) lystan, from (etyl) ).

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To be pleasing to.

(archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2

If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy / likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list .

* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VIII, ''Unworking Aristocracy

Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list ; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!

* 1959 , , "What is Political Philosophy?", in What is Political Philosophy? , page 51:

License consists in doing what one lists ; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only;

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 413:

The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.

Derived terms

* listless

Noun

(obsolete) Inclination; desire.

Anagrams

* * *

References

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