Verb

(en verb)

(lb) Non-linear physical movement.

# (lb) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.

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#*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."

# (lb) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.

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It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}

# (lb) To change one's direction of travel.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}

#* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned , and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

# To change the course of.

# (lb) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.

# (lb) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The poet's pen turns them to shapes.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

He was perfectly well turned for trade.

#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

His limbs how turned , how broad his shoulders spread!

# (lb) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.

# Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

# Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

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To change condition or attitude.

# To become (begin to be).

#* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 21, author=Jonathan Jurejko, work=BBC Sport

, title= Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , passage=The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.}}

# To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.

# To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.

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At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}

## (lb) To sour or spoil; to go bad.

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## (lb) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.

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# To hinge; to depend.

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.

# To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.

# To change personal condition.

## (lb) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa .

## To become giddy; said of the head or brain.

##* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

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I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn .

## To sicken; to nauseate.

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## To be nauseated; said of the stomach.

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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:

And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice unto the ymage, and reioysed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. Then God turned himsilfe, and gave them up

* Bible, (w) xxxii. 12

Turn from thy fierce wrath.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations.

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Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

To complete.

Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's .

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.}}

To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

(lb) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

(lb) To translate.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

who turns a Persian tale for half a crown

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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , 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.}}

* {{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.

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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.