(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.
Welter
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bitter battle between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham for tenancy of the stadium, which originally cost £429m to build, was won by the east London club but the deal was later scrapped due to "legal paralysis" amid a welter of challenges.
(2) Photograph: Gordon Welters for the Guardian Sometimes a tour around the Pergamon, which hosts one of the oldest and largest collection of Arab artefacts outside the Arab world, enables a debate that is not easily had inside a crowded refugee shelter.
(3) Young caused controversy by saying Britons had "never had it so good" in this "so-called recession", prompting frustration in No 10 and provoking a welter of criticism from Labour.
(4) A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: “For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised.” In a message to the Independent staff, the Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, said she was “really saddened” by the news that the titles were to be printed for the last time next month .
(5) Germany's bureaucratic stasis contrasts with a welter of events, official and unofficial, digital, public and private, in the other former belligerent countries.
(6) To try to keep up with the welter of environmental claims, test the green spin and spot the green frauds, the Guardian is launching today a regular online column, Greenwash, and calls on readers to submit their examples of the fraudulent, mendacious, confusing, ignorant or just daft claims jostling for our attention.
(7) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
(8) But it is the Kochs' links to a welter of mass mobilisation campaigns opposing Barack Obama that is making the biggest impact.
(9) In the welter of clinical trials, some "commonsense" fundamentals have been lost or submerged, while other ideas seem to have become "modern myths."
(10) The postwar period also shows Wodehouse recognising that the tenor of his fictional universe rode uneasily with the contemporary moment, with its "welter of sex" and "demand for gloom and tragedy".
(11) Chelsea Manning has posted a handwritten letter on her new Twitter feed explaining how her tweets are communicated from military prison in a move designed to quash a welter of internet conspiracy theories claiming the feed is a fraud.
(12) Sands said of last year’s difficulties: “We faced a perfect storm: negative sentiment towards emerging markets, a sharp drop in commodity prices, persistent low interest rates and surplus liquidity, low volatility, and a welter of regulatory challenges.” He navigated the bank through the financial crisis after being promoted from finance director to chief executive in 2006.
(13) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
(14) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(15) BCCI was finally shut down in 1991, amid a welter of fraud and corruption charges, with outstanding debts of $10bn.
(16) Did he believe that trying to manage the news with injudicious leaks was a clever manoeuvre in the face of such a welter of negative information emerging about the company on an hourly basis?
(17) The proposal is the most controversial of a welter of ideas that have emerged from the commission, based on the recommendations of its 10 members and more than 300 interviews with stakeholders across the game.
(18) The next two years will be marked by a welter of government reviews,,culminating in the renewal of the BBC's royal charter in 2006.
(19) Market jitters over Europe's debt crisis returned after weeks of relative calm on Wednesday amid a welter of grim statistics from some of the biggest European economies, mixed signals from bickering eurozone political leaders, and mass protests against austerity in southern Europe .
(20) If this remains the truth, it has been somewhat lost in the welter of bad publicity, recrimination and farce that has surrounded the Police Federation of England and Wales over the last year, a period in which Steve Williams , its chairman, has been roundly condemned as a "traitor, a dictator, and an emperor".