roll vs run

roll

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. 

noun
  • 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. 

run

verb
  • To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled. 

  • To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking. 

  • Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it. 

  • To print or broadcast in the media. 

  • To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. 

  • To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. 

  • To be a candidate in an election. 

  • To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast. 

  • To control or manage, be in charge of. 

  • To smuggle (illegal goods). 

  • To go at a fast pace; to move quickly. 

  • To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase). 

  • To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program. 

  • To make run in a race. 

  • To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting. 

  • To control or have precedence in a card game. 

  • To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.) 

  • To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint). 

  • To exert continuous activity; to proceed. 

  • To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time. 

  • To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse). 

  • To cause to move quickly or lightly. 

  • To cause to enter; to thrust. 

  • To speedrun. 

  • To be in form thus, as a combination of words. 

  • To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly. 

  • To move or spread quickly. 

  • To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control. 

  • To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase). 

  • To make a machine operate. 

  • To become liquid; to melt. 

  • To make something extend in space. 

  • Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally. 

  • To achieve or perform by running or as if by running. 

  • To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way. 

  • To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace. 

  • To be presented in the media. 

  • Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route). 

  • To cost a large amount of money. 

  • Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel. 

  • To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. 

  • To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune). 

  • Of a liquid, to flow. 

  • To compete in a race. 

  • Of fish, to migrate for spawning. 

  • To make run in an election. 

  • To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. 

  • To have growth or development. 

  • To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company. 

  • To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine. 

  • To flee from a danger or towards help. 

  • To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation. 

  • To encounter or incur (a danger or risk). 

  • To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. 

  • To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object. 

  • To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole. 

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