Roll can refer to: [edit] People - Bob Roll (born 1960), American professional cyclist and commentator
- Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and a pioneer aviator
- Eric Roll (1907–2005), academic economist, public servant and banker
- Ferdinand Nicolai Roll (1831–1921), Norwegian jurist and politician
- Gary Lee Roll (1951–2000), executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Missouri
- Michael Roll (actor) (born 1961), German television actor
- Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist
- William G. Roll (born 1926), American psychologist and parapsychologist
- Michael Roll (pianist) (born 1946), British pianist
[edit] Places [edit] In entertainment - Drum roll, a technique employed by percussionists to produce a sustained sound from a drum
- Music roll, a form of recording on a paper or other roll
- Legato, a playing technique for stringed instruments (especially electric guitars)
- Roll (Mega Man), a female character in the Mega Man series of video games
- Rickroll, an Internet meme
- Roll (album), a 2003 music album by Anne McCue
[edit] In transportation - Bank or roll, in flight dynamics, a rotation of a vehicle about its longitudinal axis
- For a ship, stable deviation from horizontal is called list: "Roll" refers to dynamic movement.
- Roll program, a roll/bank performed during a rocket launch
- Kayak roll, maneuver used to right a kayak that has capsized
- Roll, a smooth wheel fitted to a steamroller or road roller
[edit] Other uses - Roll (food)
- Electoral roll, a list of eligible voters
- Credits roll, scrolling text listing the people involved in making a film
- Roll call, calling of the names of people from a list, to determine their presence or absence
- Pipe Rolls, a series of financial records from England, covering the period from 1130 to 1833
- Toilet roll or toilet paper, soft paper product used for personal hygiene
- Bank roll, a paper holder for coins
- Rollable electronics
- Roll cloud, a type of cloud often found downwind of mountains
- Horizontal convective rolls, in meteorology, rolls of counter-rotating air oriented parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer
- Trill consonant, in phonetics, a sound produced as part of speech
- Roster, a list of people
- Rotulus, a roll designed for writing on, in which a strip of papyrus or parchment is wound about a wooden staff
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