ROLL


Meaning of ROLL in English

I.

noun

1 bread

ADJECTIVE

▪ bread

▪ crusty , soft

▪ dinner , finger ( BrE ), kaiser ( AmE ), morning ( BrE ), sub ( AmE ), submarine

▪ brown ( esp. BrE ), white ( esp. BrE ), wholegrain , wholemeal ( BrE ), wholewheat

▪ sweet

▪ cinnamon

▪ buttered , filled ( BrE )

▪ cheese , ham , lobster ( AmE ), etc.

2 list of names

ADJECTIVE

▪ blog , honour/honor ( esp. AmE ), jobless ( AmE ), membership , registration , school , tax ( esp. AmE ), welfare ( AmE )

My daughter's grades improved and she made the honor ~. ( AmE )

▪ electoral ( BrE ), voter ( AmE ), voting ( AmE )

▪ falling ( BrE )

Falling ~s could lead to smaller class sizes.

VERB + ROLL

▪ remove sb from

Eligible voters had been removed from the voting ~s.

▪ call , take

The chairman called the ~ ( = to see if everyone was present ).

ROLL + NOUN

▪ call

Staff evacuated the building and a ~ call was taken outside.

PREPOSITION

▪ on (the) ~

There are 340 children on the school ~.

PHRASES

▪ a ~ of honour ( BrE )

Her name was engraved on sport's ~ of honour.

II.

verb

1 move by turning over

ADVERB

▪ slowly

▪ quickly

He quickly ~ed over and got to his feet.

▪ gently

▪ smoothly

The black car ~ed smoothly down the street.

▪ lazily

She lazily ~ed her head on the pillow.

▪ easily

The boulder easily ~ed aside.

▪ along , around , away , back , backwards/backward , down , forward , over

The tigers ~ed over and over in the mud.

PREPOSITION

▪ down

A tear ~ed slowly down her cheek.

▪ off

2 make sth into the shape of a ball/tube

ADVERB

▪ tightly

She carried the magazine tightly ~ed up in her hand.

▪ up

PREPOSITION

▪ into

He ~ed the paper into a tight ball.

3 of a ship/plane

ADVERB

▪ heavily ( BrE )

▪ slightly

Roll is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ ball , ↑ boat , ↑ camera , ↑ cart , ↑ cloud , ↑ credit , ↑ eye , ↑ mist , ↑ press , ↑ tank , ↑ thunder , ↑ train , ↑ truck , ↑ wagon , ↑ wave

Roll is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ ball , ↑ cigarette , ↑ clay , ↑ dice , ↑ eye , ↑ hip , ↑ shoulder

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .