Roll

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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

Contents 1 In music 2 In transport 3 People 4 Places 5 In the atmosphere 6 Other uses 7 See also

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] In transport

• Bank or roll, an aerobatic manoeuvre (see Aerobatics and flight dynamics)
• The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. See ship motions and flight dynamics.
• The smooth wheels fitted to a steamroller or road roller

[edit] 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

[edit] Places

In the United States:

• Roll, Indiana
• Roll, Oklahoma

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Rolling