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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(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.

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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):

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.

Verb

(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:

But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […].

(transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.

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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.

To consist of certain text.

The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.

Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

That sentence reads strangely.

To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); (used to introduce an emendation of a text).

* 1832 , John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica , Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:

In , it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.

(informal, usually, ironic) .

* 2009 , Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies , Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2, page 191:

Eliminate illogical (read : stupid) answer choices.

(telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

(British) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

(computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

to read''' a hard disk; to '''read''' a port; to '''read the keyboard

(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.

* (William Tyndale)

Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.

(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iv:

But read how art thou named, and of what kin.

(transgenderism) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

(read)