Closure
(v. t.) The act of shutting |
Closure
(v. t.) That which closes or shuts |
Closure
(v. t.) That which incloses or confines |
Closure
(v. t.) A conclusion |
Closure
(v. t.) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding. |
Counter-roll
(n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Ragman's roll
() The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. |
Roll
(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over |
Roll
(n.) To wrap round on itself |
Roll
(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage |
Roll
(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling |
Roll
(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words |
Roll
(n.) To press or level with a roller |
Roll
(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
Roll
(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum |
Roll
(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping |
Roll
(n.) To turn over in one's mind |
Roll
(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding |
Roll
(v. i.) To move on wheels |
Roll
(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball |
Roll
(v. i.) To fall or tumble |
Roll
(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution |
Roll
(v. i.) To turn |
Roll
(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. |
Roll
(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other |
Roll
(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down |
Roll
(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin |
Roll
(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll
(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise |
Roll
(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled |
Roll
(v.) That which rolls |
Roll
(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. |
Roll
(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill |
Roll
(v.) That which is rolled up |
Roll
(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up |
Roll
(v.) Hence, an official or public document |
Roll
(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form |
Roll
(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. |
Roll
(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. |
Roll
(v.) 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. |
Roll
(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound |
Roll
(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll
(v.) Part |
| roll bowl | the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) |
| roll | a flight maneuver, aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude |
| barrel roll | a roll in which the plane follows a spiral course |
| snap roll | a fast roll |
closure
closedown
closing
shutdown | termination of operations, they regretted the closure of the day care center |
| closing closure | approaching a particular destination, a coming closer, a narrowing of a gap, the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision |
| roll | walking with a swaying gait |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
| roll call | calling out an official list of names |
blockage
closure occlusion | the act of blocking |
| cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
blockage
block closure
occlusion
stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
| roll | anything rolled up in cylindrical form |
| roll | photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
roll of tobacco
smoke | tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
| roll-on | a woman's foundation garment rolled on to the hips |
| roll-on | a dispenser of a liquid cosmetic (such as a deodorant) having a revolving ball as an applicator |
| roll-on roll-off | a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination |
settlement
resolution closure | something settled or resolved, the outcome of decision making, they finally reached a settlement with the union, they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences, he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
closure
law of closure | a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric |
scroll
roll | a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) |
roll
roster | a list of names, his name was struck off the rolls |
| muster roll | a list of names of officers and men in a military unit or ship's company |
| church roll | a list of the members of church |
closure
cloture
gag rule
gag law | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body |
closure by compartment
guillotine | closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill |
rock 'n' roll
rock'n'roll
rock-andoll
rock and roll
rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
roller
roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
paradiddle
roll drum roll | the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously |
peal
pealing
roll
rolling | a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) |
axial rotation
axial motion
roll | rotary motion of an object around its own axis, wheels in axial rotation |
| sausage roll | sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry |
jellyroll
Swiss roll | thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake |
bun
roll | small rounded bread either plain or sweet |
hamburger bun
hamburger roll | a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty |
crescent roll
croissant | very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll |
hard roll
Vienna roll | yeastaised roll with a hard crust |
| soft roll | yeastaised roll with a soft crust |
| kaiser roll | rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center |
| Parker House roll | yeastaised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking |
| clover-leaf roll | yeastaised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan |
| onion roll | yeastaised roll flavored with onion |
sweet roll
coffee roll | any of numerous yeastaised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze |
cinnamon roll
cinnamon bun
cinnamon snail | rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking |
| pinwheel roll | pinwheel-shaped rolls spread with cinnamon and sugar and filled with e.g. jam before baking |
egg roll
spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
| rocker rock 'n' roll musician | a performer or composer or fan of rock music |
Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton | United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (-) |
bankroll
roll | a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.), he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag |