English Dictionary

roll

/ɹəʊl/

noun

That which is rolled up. / A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. / An official or public document; a register; a record.

She picked up the roll of paper and unrolled it.

意味（1）

That which is rolled up.

a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

意味（2）

A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.

意味（3）

An official or public document; a register; a record.

As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower

意味（4）

A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.

Several people sued the state after finding out that they'd been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.

意味（5）

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

意味（6）

A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

意味（7）

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.

THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another.

意味（9）

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.