| 单词 | roll |
| 释义 | Word Frequency roll(rəʊl) verb 1. to move or cause to move along by turning over and over 2. to move or cause to move along on wheels or rollers 3. to flow or cause to flow onwards in an undulating movement billows of smoke rolled over the ground 4. (intransitive) to extend in undulations the hills roll down to the sea 5. (intransitive; usually foll by around) to move or occur in cycles 6. (intransitive) (of a planet, the moon, etc) to revolve in an orbit 7. (intr; foll by on, by, etc) to pass or elapse the years roll by 8. to rotate or cause to rotate wholly or partially to roll one's eyes 9. to curl, cause to curl, or admit of being curled, so as to form a ball, tube, or cylinder; coil 10. to make or form by shaping into a ball, tube, or cylinder to roll a cigarette 11. (often foll by out) to spread or cause to spread out flat or smooth under or as if under a roller to roll the lawn to roll pastry 12. to emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound the thunder rolled continuously 13. to trill or cause to be trilled to roll one's r's 14. (intransitive) (of a vessel, aircraft, rocket, etc) to turn from side to side around the longitudinal axis Compare pitch1 (sense 11), yaw (sense 1)15. to cause (an aircraft) to execute a roll or (of an aircraft) to execute a roll 16. (intransitive) to walk with a swaying gait, as when drunk; sway 17. (intransitive; often foll by over) (of an animal, esp a dog) to lie on its back and wriggle while kicking its legs in the air, without moving along 18. (intransitive) to wallow or envelop oneself (in) 19. (transitive) to apply ink to (type, etc) with a roller or rollers 20. to throw (dice) 21. (intransitive) to operate or begin to operate the presses rolled 22. (intransitive) informal to make progress; move or go ahead let the good times roll 23. (transitive) informal, mainly US and New Zealand to rob (a helpless person, such as someone drunk or asleep) 24. (transitive) slang to have sexual intercourse or foreplay with (a person) 25. start the ball rolling noun 26. the act or an instance of rolling 27. anything rolled up in a cylindrical form a roll of newspaper 28. an official list or register, esp of names an electoral roll 29. a rounded mass rolls of flesh 30. a strip of material, esp leather, fitted with pockets or pouches for holding tools, toilet articles, needles and thread, etc 31. a cylinder used to flatten something; roller 32. a small loaf of bread for one person: eaten plain, with butter, or as a light meal when filled with meat, cheese, etc 33. a flat pastry or cake rolled up with a meat (sausage roll), jam (jam roll), or other filling See also swiss roll 34. a swell, ripple, or undulation on a surface the roll of the hills 35. a swaying, rolling, or unsteady movement or gait 36. a deep prolonged reverberating sound the roll of thunder 37. a rhythmic cadenced flow of words 38. a trilling sound; trill 39. a very rapid beating of the sticks on a drum 40. a flight manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes one complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without loss of height or change in direction 41. the angular displacement of a vessel, rocket, missile, etc, caused by rolling 42. a throw of dice 43. a bookbinder's tool having a brass wheel, used to impress a line or repeated pattern on the cover of a book 44. slang an act of sexual intercourse or petting (esp in the phrase a roll in the hay) 45. US slang an amount of money, esp a wad of paper money 46. on a roll 47. strike off the roll Word origin C14 rollen, from Old French roler, from Latin rotulus a little wheel, from rota a wheel |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含233703条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。