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rolling   (TTS Sound)

The noun rolling has 3 senses

• peal, pealing, roll, rolling -- (a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells))


• rolling -- (the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park")


• wheeling, rolling -- (propelling something on wheels)

The verb roll has 18 senses

• roll, turn over -- (move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side")


• wheel, roll -- (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds")


• roll, undulate -- (occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past")


• roll out, roll -- (flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper")


• roll -- (emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums")


• wind, wrap, roll, twine -- (arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child")


• roll -- (begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling")


• roll -- (shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette")


• roll -- (execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped")


• hustle, pluck, roll -- (sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity)


• roll, undulate, flap, wave -- (move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach")


• roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town")


• roll -- (move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas")


• roll, revolve -- (cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words")


• roll -- (pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; "She rolls her r's")


• seethe, roll -- (boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled")


• roll -- (take the shape of a roll or cylinder; "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well")


• roll, roll up -- (show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly")

The adj rolling has 1 sense

• rolled, rolling, trilled -- (uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish")