<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.</li><li>to move or be moved on wheels, as a vehicle or its occupants.</li><li>to flow or advance in a stream or with an undulating motion, as water, waves, or smoke.</li><li>to extend in undulations, as land.</li><li>to elapse, pass, or move, as time (often followed by on, away, or by).</li><li>to move as in a cycle (usually followed by around or round).</li><li>to perform a periodical revolution in an orbit, as a heavenly body.</li><li>to emit or have a deep, prolonged sound, as thunder, drums, etc.</li><li>to trill, as a bird.</li><li>to revolve or turn over once or repeatedly, as a wheel on an axis or a person or animal lying down.</li><li>to turn around in different directions or in a circle, as the eyes in their sockets.</li><li>(of a vessel) to rock from side to side in open water.</li><li>to sail with a side-to-side rocking motion.</li><li>to walk with a swinging or swaying gait.</li><li>to begin to move or operate; start; commence.</li><li>to go forward or advance without restrictions or impediments.</li><li>to curl up so as to form a tube or cylinder.</li><li>to be spread out after being curled up (usually followed by out).</li><li>to spread out flat (something curled up) (often followed by out).</li><li>(of an aircraft or rocket) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by rotation about its longitudinal axis.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.</li><li>a list, register, or catalog, especially one containing the names of the persons belonging to a company, class, society, etc.</li><li>anything rolled up in a ringlike or cylindrical form; a roll of wire.</li><li>a number of papers or other items rolled up together.</li><li>a length of cloth, wallpaper, or the like, rolled up in cylindrical form (often forming a definite measure).</li><li>a cylindrical or rounded mass of something; rolls of fat.</li><li>some article of cylindrical or rounded form, as a molding.</li><li>a cylindrical piece upon which something is rolled along to facilitate moving.</li><li>a cylinder serving as a core upon which something is rolled up.</li><li>a roller with which something is spread out, leveled, crushed, smoothed, compacted, or the like.</li><li>cooking: a small cake of bread, originally and still often rolled or doubled on itself before baking; a dinner roll with butter.</li><li>thin cake spread with jelly or the like and rolled up; cinnamon rolls.</li><li>meat rolled up and cooked; cabbage rolls with ground beef and rice.</li><li>a kind of sushi, shaped into a cone or into a cylinder that is sliced into bite-size pieces.</li><li>the act or process or an instance of rolling.</li><li>undulation, as of a surface; the roll of a prairie.</li><li>a sonorous or rhythmical flow of words.</li><li>a deep, prolonged sound, as of thunder; the deep roll of a breaking wave.</li><li>the trill of certain birds, especially of the roller canary.</li><li>the continuous sound of a drum rapidly beaten.</li><li>a rolling motion, as of a ship.</li><li>a rolling or swaying gait.</li><li>(of an aircraft or rocket) the act of rolling.</li><li>informal: paper currency carried folded or rolled up.</li><li>bankroll; funds.</li><li>(in various dice games) a single cast of or turn at casting the dice.</li><li>the total number of pips or points made by a single cast; score or point.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to reduce (the price of a commodity, wages, etc.) to a former level, usually in response to government action.</li><li>to restore to a previous state.</li><li>to cause (an enemy) to retreat or withdraw.</li><li>informal: to arrive, especially in large numbers or quantity.</li><li>to go to bed; retire.</li><li>to mix and average the cost of (a higher-priced commodity or item) with that of a cheaper one so as to increase the retail price.</li><li>to add: Labor wants to roll in periodic increases with their wage demands.</li><li>personal finance, business: to reinvest funds, especially a tax-free transfer of assets from one retirement plan to another.</li><li>to overturn: The truck rolled over, and the driver hung by her seatbelt.</li><li>to turn over: I rolled over in my sleep and nearly fell out of bed.</li><li>to accumulate; collect: to roll up a large vote.</li><li>to increase.</li><li>to arrive in a conveyance: He rolled up to the front door in a chauffeur-driven limousine.</li><li>to spread out or flatten: to roll out dough.</li><li>informal: to arise from bed; get up.</li><li>football: to execute a rollout.</li><li>informal: to introduce; unveil: a TV advertising campaign to roll out the new car.</li></ul>