Roll

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Roll can refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 In entertainment 4 In transportation 5 Other uses 6 See also

[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

• Roll, Indiana
• Roll, Oklahoma

[edit] In entertainment

• Drum roll, a technique employed by percussionists to produce a sustained sound from a drum
  • Gravity roll
  • Single-stroke roll
• Music roll, a form of recording on a paper or other roll
  • Piano roll, a music roll used in a player piano
• 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
• A technique employed by players of the Scruggs style banjo

[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
• A pill of MDMA or to experience the effects of the drug.

[edit] See also

• Rolling (disambiguation)
• Role

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