Move vs. Roll — What's the Difference?

To change in position from one point to another

Move in a particular direction by turning over and over on an axis

To follow a specified course

(of a vehicle) move or run on wheels

To change posture or position; stir

Turn (something flexible) over and over on itself to form a cylinder, tube, or ball

To start off; depart

Flatten (something) by passing a roller over it or by passing it between rollers

(Games) To change position on a board in a board game.

(of a loud, deep sound) reverberate

To go from one residence or location to another; relocate

Rob (someone, typically when they are intoxicated or asleep)

(Linguistics) To be copied or moved by means of a movement transformation to a new position in syntactic structure.

A cylinder formed by winding flexible material round a tube or by turning it over and over on itself without folding

To progress in sequence; go forward

A movement in which someone or something turns or is turned over on itself

To progress toward a particular state or condition

A prolonged, deep, reverberating sound

To be disposed of by sale

A very small loaf of bread, to be eaten by one person

To be put in motion or to turn according to a prescribed motion. Used of machinery.

An official list or register of names

To exhibit great activity or energy

Undulation of the landscape

To initiate an action; act

A roller for flattening something, especially one used to shape metal in a rolling mill.

To be active in a particular environment

To move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

To stir the emotions

To travel or be moved on wheels or rollers

To make a formal motion in parliamentary procedure

To travel around; wander

To evacuate. Used of the bowels.

To travel or be carried in a vehicle.

To change the place or position of

To be carried on a stream

To cause to go from one place to another

To start to move or operate

(Games) To change (a piece) from one position to another in a board game

To work or succeed in a sustained way; gain momentum

To change the course of

To go by; elapse

To cause to progress or advance

To recur. Often used with around

To dislodge from a fixed point of view, as by persuasion

To move in a periodic revolution, as a planet in its orbit.

To prompt to action; rouse

To turn over and over

To arouse the emotions of; affect or stir.

To shift the gaze usually quickly and continually

To cause to function

To turn around or revolve on an axis.

To cause to progress or advance

To move or advance with a rising and falling motion; undulate

To propose or request in formal parliamentary procedure

To extend or appear to extend in gentle rises and falls

To make formal application to (a court, for example).

To move or rock from side to side

To dispose of by sale

To walk with a swaying, unsteady motion.

To cause (the bowels) to evacuate.

(Slang) To experience periodic rushes after taking an intoxicating drug, especially MDMA.

The act or an instance of moving.

To take the shape of a ball or cylinder

A particular manner of moving

To become flattened by pressure applied by a roller.

A change of residence or location.

To make a deep, prolonged, surging sound

An act of transferring a piece from one position to another in board games.

To make a sustained trilling sound, as certain birds do.

The prescribed manner in which a piece may be played.

To beat a drum in a continuous series of short blows.

A participant's turn to make a play.

To pour, flow, or move in a continual stream

An action taken to achieve an objective; a maneuver

To enjoy ample amounts

(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

To cause to move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.

(intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

To move or push along on wheels or rollers

(intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

To impel or send onward in a steady, swelling motion

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

To impart a swaying, rocking motion to

To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.

To turn around or partly turn around; rotate

(transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

To cause to begin moving or operating

(transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

To extend or lay out

To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit

To pronounce or utter with a trill

To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).

To utter or emit in full, swelling tones.

To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.

To beat (a drum) with a continuous series of short blows.

To apply to, as for aid.

To wrap (something) round and round upon itself or around something else. Often used with up

To request an action from the court.

To envelop or enfold in a covering

To bow or salute upon meeting.

To make by shaping into a ball or cylinder

To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).

To spread, compress, or flatten by applying pressure with a roller

The act of moving; a movement.

(Printing) To apply ink to (type) with a roller or rollers.

An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

(Games) To throw (dice), as in craps.

A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

(Slang) To rob (a drunken, sleeping, or otherwise helpless person).

The event of changing one's residence.

The act or an instance of rolling.

A change in strategy.

Something rolled up

A transfer, a change from one employer to another.

A quantity, as of cloth or wallpaper, rolled into a cylinder and often considered as a unit of measure.

(board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

A piece of parchment or paper that may be or is rolled up; a scroll.

A round, in which each player has a turn.

A register or a catalogue.

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.

A list of names of persons belonging to a group.

To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another on a playing board, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

A mass in cylindrical or rounded form

To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

A small loaf of bread, portioned for one individual and often served as a side dish or appetizer or used to make a sandwich.

To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.

A portion of food wrapped around a filling

To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.

A rolling, swaying, or rocking motion.

To apply to, as for aid.

A gentle swell or undulation of a surface

To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.

A deep reverberation or rumble

To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

A rapid succession of short sounds

To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.

A trill

To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

A resonant, rhythmical flow of words.

The act of moving; a movement.

A roller, especially a cylinder on which to roll something up or with which to flatten something.

The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game; also, the opportunity or obligation to so move a piece; one's turn; as, you can only borrow from the bank in Monopoly when it's your move.

An amount of rotation around a longitudinal axis, as of an aircraft or boat.

An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

A maneuver in which an airplane makes a single complete rotation about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.

The act of deciding to do something;

(Slang) Money, especially a wad of paper money.

The act of changing your residence or place of business;

(transitive) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.

A change of position that does not entail a change of location;

(intransitive) To turn over and over.

The act of changing location from one place to another;

(intransitive) To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.

(game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action

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

Change location; move, travel, or proceed;

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

Cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense;

(intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.

Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion;

(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment;

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

Follow a procedure or take a course;

(transitive) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.

Be in a state of action;

(intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.

Go or proceed from one point to another;

(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action);

To leave or begin a journey.

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;

To compete, especially with vigor.

Give an incentive for action;

(transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

Arouse sympathy or compassion in;

(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.

Dispose of by selling;

(transitive) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

Progress by being changed;

To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

Live one's life in a specified environment;

To throw dice.

Have a turn; make one's move in a game;

To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

Propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting

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

To generate a random number.

To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.

To travel by sailing.

(transitive) To beat up; to assault.

To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

To betray secrets.

To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).

To (cause to) film.

To slip past (a defender) with the ball.

(intransitive) To have a rolling aspect.

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

(intransitive) To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

To move and cause an effect on someone

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

(transitive) To utter with an alveolar trill.

To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).

(transitive) To create a customized version of.

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To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.

To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.

The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

Something which rolls.

A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

A swagger or rolling gait.

A heavy, reverberatory sound.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.

The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.

An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.

The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling and especially in the phrase on a roll.

A training match for a fighting dog.

An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

(paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.

(finance) Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.

That which is rolled up.

A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

An official or public document; a register; a record.

A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

(obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; - often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; - often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

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 suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

To fall or tumble; - with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

To turn; to move circularly.

To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

That which rolls; a roller.

That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Part; office; duty; rôle.

Rotary motion of an object around its own axis;

A list of names;

A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

Photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light

A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles

A roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.);

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet

A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously

A document that can be rolled up (as for storage)

Anything rolled up in cylindrical form

The act of throwing dice

Walking with a rolling gait

A flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude

The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

Move by turning over or rotating;

Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle;

Occur in soft rounded shapes;

Flatten or spread with a roller;

Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound;

Wrap or coil around;

Begin operating or running;

Shape by rolling;

Execute a roll, in tumbling;

Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;

Move, rock, or sway from side to side;

Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis;

Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/;

Boil vigorously;

Take the shape of a roll or cylinder;

Show certain properties when being rolled;