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The French word for roll is
rouleau





roll

Plural

The plural of rouleau is rouleaux.

French Definition


roll
     1. v. Rouler.
     2. v. Faire rouler.
     3. n. Petit pain (sans chocolat).
           Bread roll.
     4. n. Roulement, rouleau.
           Let's put that roll of paper in the printer.
           Mettons ce rouleau de papier dans l'imprimante.
           Egg roll.
           Spring roll.
     5. n. Lancer, action de jeter.
           Roll of the dice.
     6. n. Rôle (liste officielle, par exemple : roll call).
           The conservatives complained about the cost of maintaining the welfare rolls.
           All the soldiers had to turn out for roll call when reveille was played eary in the morning.
           Tous les soldats durent se rassembler pour l'appel quand la sonnerie du réveil fut jouée tôt le matin.
     7. n. (Cuisine) (Spring roll) (Egg roll) rouleau de printemps, rouleau printanier.
     8. n. (Cuisine) (Vietnamese egg roll) Nem.
     9. n. (Aéro) (Marine) Roulis.
           The motion of an airplane can be described in terms of roll, pitch, and yaw.

Translations for roll and their definitions

roulement
     1. n-m. roll; rolling (action of rolling)
     2. n-m. (mechanics) bearing
     3. n-m. roll (beating of a drum)
     4. n-m. roll (of thunder)


rouler
     1. v. to roll
     2. v. to revolve
     3. v. (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
           Ça roule bien chez mon ami. - It's going well at my friend's house.
     4. v. (of a vehicle) to work, to function
     5. v. to drive (a vehicle)
           On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure. - We were driving 80 km an hour.
           Il roule en Rolls - He drives a Rolls.
           Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf. - She drives a new vehicle.
     6. v. (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
           se faire rouler - to be tricked, to be duped


petit pain
     1. n-m. synonym of pain au chocolat


roulis
     1. n-m. rolling, swaying, sway, rocking


roue
     1. n-f. a wheel
           Une roue de vélo (bike wheel), une roue de secours (spare wheel)
           Roue de moulin: mill wheel.
           Roue dentée (or engrenage): toothed wheel, cogwheel
     2. n-f. the breaking wheel


Rouleau
     1. Proper noun. surname, xlit=Rouleau
     2. Proper noun. a placename
     3. Proper noun.         
     4. Proper noun.          ellipsis of Île Rouleau;
     5. n-m. roll, roller


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