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Collocations for roll - noun

1. bread

ADJECTIVE

bread
crusty, soft
dinner, finger (BrE), kaiser (AmE), morning (BrE), sub (AmE), submarine
brown (esp. BrE), white (esp. BrE), wholegrain, wholemeal (BrE), wholewheat
sweet
cinnamon
buttered, filled (BrE)
cheese, ham, lobster (AmE), etc.

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2. list of names

ADJECTIVE

blog, honour/honor (esp. AmE), jobless (AmE), membership, registration, school, tax (esp. AmE), welfare (AmE)
My daughter's grades improved and she made the honor roll. (AmE)
electoral (BrE), voter (AmE), voting (AmE)
falling (BrE)
Falling rolls could lead to smaller class sizes.

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VERB + roll

remove sb from
Eligible voters had been removed from the voting rolls.
call, take
The chairman called the roll (= to see if everyone was present).

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roll + NOUN

call
Staff evacuated the building and a roll call was taken outside.

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PREPOSITION

on (the) roll
There are 340 children on the school roll.

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PHRASES

a roll of honour (BrE)
Her name was engraved on sport's roll of honour.

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Collocations for roll - verb

1. move by turning over

ADVERB

slowly
quickly
He quickly rolled over and got to his feet.
gently
smoothly
The black car rolled smoothly down the street.
lazily
She lazily rolled her head on the pillow.
easily
The boulder easily rolled aside.
along, around, away, back, backwards/backward, down, forward, over
The tigers rolled over and over in the mud.

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PREPOSITION

down
A tear rolled slowly down her cheek.
off

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2. make sth into the shape of a ball/tube

ADVERB

tightly
She carried the magazine tightly rolled up in her hand.
up

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PREPOSITION

into
He rolled the paper into a tight ball.

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3. of a ship/plane

ADVERB

heavily (BrE)
slightly

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Roll is used with these nouns as the subject:
ball, boat, camera, cart, cloud, credit, eye, mist, press, tank, thunder, train, truck, wagon, wave

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Roll is used with these nouns as the object:
ball, cigarette, clay, dice, eye, hip, shoulder

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