roll
part of speech
verb (roll, rolls, rolled, rolling); noun (a roll, rolls)
meaning for a pupil
1) To roll is to turn over and over, like a ball moving along the ground. tree →
2) To roll is to move on wheels: the car rolled down the hill. tree →
3) A roll is a small round bread. tree →
4) A roll is a long piece of paper, tape, film or cloth wound up into a tube shape. tree →
5) To roll dice is to throw them. tree →
6) A roll is a list of names: the class roll. tree →
7) A roll is a long deep sound: a roll of thunder, a drum roll. tree →
8) To roll can also mean to move forward steadily, like a wave. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: things counted (bread rolls, rolls of paper, tape or film); rolling dice or a ball; probability with dice. In science: round things roll; slopes make things roll faster; friction slows them. In everyday life: «roll up your sleeves», taking the roll (register) at school, rolls of toilet paper. In stories: a roll of thunder, «let's roll».
examples
- She bought 12 dinner rolls. tree →
- Each roll of tape is 30 meters long. tree →
- He rolled a 6 on the die. tree →
- A roll of stickers has 50 stickers. tree →
- The ball rolled down the hill. tree →
- Roll the dough into a long snake. tree →
- The teacher called the roll. tree →
- There was a roll of thunder. tree →
- Roll up your sleeves before you wash the paint pots. tree →
- Now a wave came rolling onward. tree →
note
«A roll of X» is a container with a fixed amount, so total = rolls × amount per roll. Trap: «rolled a 4» is a number shown on a die, not a count of things. A normal die has 6 sides (1 to 6), so the chance of a 6 is 1 out of 6. Homophone: role (a part in a play).
In the corpora
- Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes.
- In the death roll a crocodile spins in the water to tear chunks off its prey, because it can't chew.
- Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.
- Young pandas really tumble and roll, and pandas are good climbers that can rest high in tree branches.
- Donkeys love to roll in dust, which scratches itches, cleans the coat and keeps off flies.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «roll» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.