What's the difference between bankroll and roll?

Bankroll


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Medicare not corporate bankroll January 6, 2016 “Medicare is not designed to be a guaranteed bankable revenue for corporations, nor is a taxpayer-funded payment like this provided to cross-subsidise other costs of doing business for pathology companies,” she said on Wednesday.
  • (2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
  • (3) The move is significant because Sainsbury, a supporter of David Miliband who has bankrolled Labour with £13m in the last 10 years, is one of several big donors who have said they are not keen on continuing to back Labour with Ed in charge.
  • (4) Premier League finances: the full club-by-club breakdown and verdict Read more The regulations, which restrict clubs’ losses to £35m a year if bankrolled by an owner and cap the amount of new TV income permitted to be spent on players’ wages, immediately transformed clubs’ balance sheets.
  • (5) Years earlier, she had duped him into bankrolling her travels.
  • (6) Xu bankrolled Guagua's trips between China and the UK, where he was attending school at the time, as well as trips to Cuba, Argentina, Venice, Paris, and Germany, where Guagua attended the 2006 World Cup.
  • (7) In the last week of the campaign, people in the yes campaign have accused their opponents of being bankrolled by evangelical Christian groups in the US , a claim they deny and which, if true, would be illegal.
  • (8) As Ms Murdoch admitted, throughout her career she had been helped and bankrolled by her father.
  • (9) Woolfe was backed by many of the Faragists, including Arron Banks, the major Ukip donor who bankrolled an influential anti-EU group during the referendum.
  • (10) Part of ­el‑Shater's influence comes from his wealth, which helps to bankroll the party – giving rise to his nickname inside the movement: minister for finance.
  • (11) And yet Made in Dagenham (like Submarine, The King's Speech and Another Year) was bankrolled in part by the UK Film Council , which is being closed and will cease operations by April 2012.
  • (12) By keeping non-dom status Ashcroft avoided paying tens of millions of pounds in tax in the UK while sitting in the Lords and still bankrolling the Conservatives .
  • (13) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
  • (14) And a bank is yet to explicitly bankroll Carmichael.
  • (15) The UK chain generates two thirds of group profits and had been milked to bankroll international expansion, leading to shabby stores and deteriorating customer service.
  • (16) She has denied any involvement in the scandal, although her People’s party is accused of siphoning off state funds to bankroll its election campaign.
  • (17) Buoyed by the oil and gas companies and fossil-fuel-funder mega-donors that increasingly bankroll their campaigns, most prominent Republican politicians have either denied that climate change exists or refused to stake out a clear position, citing their personal lack of scientific knowledge.
  • (18) The City would be more circumspect about openly bankrolling the Conservatives if it thought there was a possibility that Labour might win the next election.
  • (19) There are widespread rumours that Yanukovych's eldest son, Oleksandr, has bankrolled anti-Kiev protests.
  • (20) He is also widely rumoured to have used his connections to bankroll dozens of deputies.

Roll


Definition:

  • (n.) 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; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
  • (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
  • (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
  • (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
  • (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
  • (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
  • (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • (n.) 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 suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  • (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
  • (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
  • (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
  • (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
  • (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
  • (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
  • (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
  • (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
  • (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
  • (v.) That which rolls; a roller.
  • (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  • (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
  • (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  • (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  • (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  • (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
  • (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
  • (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  • (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
  • (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v.) Part; office; duty; role.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (4) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
  • (5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
  • (6) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
  • (7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
  • (8) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (9) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
  • (10) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (12) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (13) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (14) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (15) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (16) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
  • (17) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
  • (18) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (19) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
  • (20) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.