Rollとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.

動詞

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

1. (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

   To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

   The child will roll on the floor.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370, lines 267–268:

     Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 13:

     The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.

2. (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

   To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

   The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

3. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.

   To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.

4. (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.

   This river will roll its waters to the ocean.

   The years roll on.

5. (intransitive, of drops of liquid) To pour or trickle.

   Drops of sweat rolled down his face.

6. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.

   To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.

7. (ergative) To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.

   to roll a field;  to roll paste;  to roll steel rails.

   The pastry rolls well.

8. (ergative) To move upon rollers or wheels.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

9. (intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
10. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.

    I want to get there early; let's roll.

    1. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial, intransitive) To compete, especially with vigor.

       OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!

    2. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive) To walk, especially leisurely or idly; to stroll.

       Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.

11. (transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
12. (geometry) 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 such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
13. (ergative) To turn over in one's mind, as of deep thoughts; to (cause to) be considered thoroughly.
    • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon On The Vanity Of The World:

      Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul,
      what different sorrows did within thee roll?

14. (US, slang, intransitive) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

    I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.

    • 2006 November 21, Chris McKenna, “Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens”, in Times Herald-Record‎, Middletown, NY, archived from the original on 16 May 2007:

      "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.

15. (dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.
    1. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

       If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

       With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.

    2. (roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

       I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.

    3. (computing) To generate a random number.
16. (programming) To perform an operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end.
17. (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch, yaw.
    1. (intransitive, in folk songs) To travel by sailing.
       • 19th c., anonymous author, “Rolling Down to Old Maui”:

         We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground,
         Rolling down to Old Maui

       • early 20th c., anonymous author, “Randy Dandy-O”:

         Now we are ready to head for the Horn
         Way-hey, roll and go!

18. (transitive) To beat up; to assault.
    • 1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Herbert Huncke, “The Beatnick's Beatnick”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

      Sometimes I'd roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morning

    • 2006, Elizabeth Gaffney, Metropolis, page 422:

      They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.

19. (ergative, slang) To (cause to) betray secrets or testify for the prosecution.

    The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.

    He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.

20. (slang, intransitive) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
    • 2000, Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance‎, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 15:

      Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”

    • 2003, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 169:

      The crowd was rolling on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. […] He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was rolling.

    • a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN

      So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]

21. (ambitransitive, of a camera) To (cause to) film.

    The cameras are rolling.

    It's time to roll the cameras.

22. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
    • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

      So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.

    • 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:

      Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.

23. (intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.

    the hills rolled on

    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎:

      In this part of Warwickshire, the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.

24. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

    The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

25. (transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

    Many languages roll their r's.

26. (transitive, US) To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

    The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.

27. (transitive, programming) To create a customized version of; often followed by one's own.
    • 2000, Mark F. Komarinski, Cary Collett, Red Hat Linux System Administration Handbook, page 311:

      Let's go through and outline how you might roll a kernel for a networked Linux machine you are using as your desktop machine and a file server for a network of Windows and Mac machines.

    • 2006, Keyboard, volume 32, page 188:

      The clap in "Situation" is a standard Roland TR- 808 clap with a some compression and a bunch of reverb. But we can roll our own version using a soft synth and a have more flexibility, specifically in getting the extra decay for full "smash," as opposed to the short clap on Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.

    • 2010, Joseph Rattz, Adam Freeman, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010, page 208:

      For the second prototype's example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.

    • 2015, Hyer Thomas, Derivatives Algorithms - Volume 1: Bones (Second Edition), page 135:

      We implement Cube_ as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficiently Swap with lower-dimensional containers is not supported by the boost::multi_array template, so we must roll our own.

28. (transitive, martial arts) To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
29. (intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

    Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.

30. (transitive, music) To briskly arpeggiate (a chord), typically in an upward motion.
31. (intransitive, video games) To drum on the reverse of a game controller with one's fingers in rapid succession, pushing the controller face into the opposite hand such that a button is rapidly pressed and depressed.

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