Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name). |
Axis (n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve |
Axis (n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged |
Axis (n.) The stem |
Axis (n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata. |
Axis (n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. |
Axis (n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. |
Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design. |
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 |
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 |
cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
axis axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
Herschelian telescope off-axis reflector | a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed |
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 |
axis axis vertebra | the nd cervical vertebra, serves as a pivot for turning the head |
axis | a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions |
coordinate axis | one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system |
x-axis | the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system |
y-axis | the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system |
z-axis | the third axis in a -dimensional coordinate system |
major axis | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, passes through the two foci |
semimajor axis | one-half the major axis of an ellipse, the distance from the center of an ellipse to one end |
minor axis | the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
semiminor axis | one-half the minor axis of an ellipse |
principal axis optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
optic axis | in a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs, a crystal may have either one or two optic axes |
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 |
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 |