report vs roll

report

noun
  • The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion. 

  • An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager. 

  • Reputation. 

  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject). 

verb
  • To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. 

  • To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). 

  • To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). 

  • To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy). 

  • To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. 

  • To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. 

  • To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). 

  • To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker. 

roll

noun
  • A heavy, reverberatory sound. 

  • A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll). 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines. 

  • 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. 

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