To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
To act as captain
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
A chief or leader.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
The leader of a group of workers.
To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
To travel by sailing.
To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
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.
To leave or begin a journey.
To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
to move and cause an effect on someone
To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
To throw dice.
To generate a random number.
To have a rolling aspect.
To create a customized version of.
To (cause to) film.
To utter with an alveolar trill.
To beat up; to assault.
To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
To compete, especially with vigor.
To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
To turn over and over.
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 such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
To betray secrets.
A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
A heavy, reverberatory sound.
A swagger or rolling gait.
A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
A training match for a fighting dog.
One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
That which is rolled up.
A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
An official or public document; a register; a record.
An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
A heavy cylinder used to break clods.