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The word roll has these meanings:

• A thin flexible solid wound around a centre.
  • Something wrapped around a tube, e.g. toilet roll.
  • Paper strips wrapped around a thin quilling tool, e.g. quilling.
• In food:
  • A bread roll.
  • A roll can refer to other foods; sausage roll, spring roll, egg roll.
• In the atmosphere:
  • A roll cloud, usually found in the lee of mountains.
  • In the boundary layer, the horizontal vortices that usually fill the layer, also known as organized large eddies.
• In transport:
  • Bank or roll, an aerobatic manoeuvre, also see flight dynamics.
  • The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. See flight dynamics.
  • The smooth wheels fitted to a steamroller or motor roller.
• In music:
  • Drum roll, a technique employed by percussionists to produce a sustained sound from a drum.
  • The Legato playing technique for stringed instruments (especially electric guitars).
• In phonetics:
  • An alternative name for a trill.
• A register, catalogue, or list of people (See also roster):
  • a list of eligible voters on an electoral roll.
  • in video and movie terminology, a roll is vertically moving text, as in credits roll.
  • the collective noun for the pupils of a school e.g. "There are 1240 pupils in the school roll."
• A bank roll, a paper holder for coins.
  • A wrapped holder for similarly shaped items, such as a candy roll
• A term for excess fat on someone's body.
• A Kayak roll, the manoeuvre used to right a kayaker that has capsized.
• A heavy machine used in a steel mill.
• Roll stepping, a movement used by marching bands.
• To rob a person who is in a helpless state.
• A slang term for a pill of MDMA (ecstasy), or being under the effects thereof (rolling).
• Proper names, such as people and companies:
  • Rolls Corporation, an audio electronics manufacturer company in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Rolls fast-food restaurant, a Finnish chain.
  • Bob Roll, an American professional cyclist and commentator.
  • Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and a pioneer aviator.
  • Roll, a female character in the Mega Man series of video games.

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