roll vs skip

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. 

skip

noun
  • A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. 

  • A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep). 

  • A college servant. 

  • A skip car. 

  • The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. 

  • An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. 

  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

  • The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him. 

  • The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. 

  • A wheeled basket used in cotton factories. 

  • A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket. 

  • A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found. 

  • A charge of syrup in the pans. 

  • skywave propagation 

  • The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain. 

  • The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary. 

  • A beehive. 

  • A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. 

verb
  • To move by hopping on alternate feet. 

  • To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. 

  • To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. 

  • To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch. 

  • To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1). 

  • To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. 

  • To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). 

  • To have insufficient ink transfer. 

  • To leap about lightly. 

  • Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). 

  • To jump rope. 

  • To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. 

  • To leap lightly over. 

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