English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of roll

roll

/noun/ रोल; तालिका; नियमावली; सूवी; लुढ़काव; कागज आदि; बेलनाकार लिपटा हुआ; टिकिया; उपस्थिति पंजिका;
/verb/लुढ़कना; गरजना; चक्कर खाना; चक्कर में मुड़ना; लोटना; पहिए की तरह चलना; घूमना; धुरे पर घूमना; बेलन फेरना; लपेटना; रॉल;

Synonym table; manual; muffin; slither; howl; swirl; roll by; sprawl; revolve; swathe;

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English Dictionary:

1. Roll

[n.]

- 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; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
- To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
- To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- 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 suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

2. Roll

[v.]

- The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
- That which rolls; a roller.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
- That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
- The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
- A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- Part; office; duty; role.

3. Roll

[v. i.]

- To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
- To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
- To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
- To turn; to move circularly.
- To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
- To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
- To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
- To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.