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The word roll has these meanings:

• Roll (food)
• A thin flexible solid wound around a centre.
  • Something wrapped around a tube, e.g. toilet roll.
  • Paper strips wrapped around a thin quilling tool, e.g. quilling.
  • A bank roll, a paper holder for coins
  • A wrapped holder for similarly shaped items, such as a candy roll
• A list of records, especially of people (see also roster, rotulus, Pipe Rolls):
  • Electoral roll, a list of eligible voters
  • Credits roll, vertically moving text in video and film terminology
  • The collective noun for the pupils of a school, e.g. "There are 1240 pupils in the school roll."
  • Roll call
• Roll Man/Roll Woman - the purveyor of fine foods into offices around the world. e.g. "The roll man is here!". Emails announcing the arrival of the Roll Man to the office sometimes use subject lines that modify the context of the word 'Roll' e.g. "Roll Up Roll Up". Humour is often injected also.

In music

• Drum roll, a technique employed by percussionists to produce a sustained sound from a drum
  • Gravity roll
  • Single-stroke roll
• The Legato playing technique for stringed instruments (especially electric guitars)
• Music roll, a form of recording on a paper or other roll
• Piano roll, a music roll used in a player piano

In transport

• Bank or roll, an aerobatic manoeuvre
• Roll program, a roll/bank performed after a rocket launch
• The rotating movement of a vessel about its longitudinal axis, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching
• The smooth wheels fitted to a steamroller or road roller

People

• Bob Roll, an American professional cyclist and commentator
• Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and a pioneer aviator
• Eric Roll
• Ferdinand Nicolai Roll
• Gary Lee Roll
• Michael Roll
• Richard Roll
• William G. Roll

Places

In the United States:

• Roll, Indiana
• Roll, Oklahoma

In the atmosphere

• A roll cloud, usually found in the lee of mountains
• Horizontal convective rolls, in the boundary layer, the horizontal vortices that usually fill the layer, also known as organized large eddies

Other uses

• A trill consonant
• A kayak roll, the manoeuvre used to right a kayak that has capsized
• A heavy machine used in a steel mill; see rolling (metalworking)
• Roll (Mega Man), a female character in the Mega Man series of video games
• Rickroll, an Internet meme

See also

• Rolling (disambiguation)

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