Verb

(en verb)

To change, swap.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

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To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}

To change position.

(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

*, II.ii.2:

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

* Shakespeare

As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.

To change gears (in a car).

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(computing) To remove the first value from an array.

To dispose of.

To hurry.

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

* L'Estrange

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.

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

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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.

*

(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.