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Meaning of "death roll" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEATH ROLL

death roll  [deθ rəʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEATH ROLL

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Death roll is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEATH ROLL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Death roll

In a keel boat, a death roll is the act of broaching to windward, putting the spinnaker pole into the water and causing a crash-gybe of the boom and mainsail, which sweep across the deck and plunge down into the water. The Death Roll often results in destruction of the spinnaker pole and sometimes even demasting of the boat. Serious injury to crew is possible due to the swift and uncontrolled action of the boom and associated gear sweeping across the boat and crashing to the leeward side. For dinghy sailors, a death roll is a common type of oscillation while running downwind. It may, and often will, result in a capsize and even a turtle if the skipper does not take quick action to prevent one. During a death roll, the boat rolls from side to side, becoming gradually more unstable until either it capsizes or the skipper reacts correctly to prevent it. While on the dead run, off the wind, the force exerted by the sail lies almost parallel to the center line of the boat.

Definition of death roll in the English dictionary

The definition of death roll in the dictionary is a list of the people killed in a war or disaster. Other definition of death roll is a manoeuvre in which a crocodile or alligator rolls over with its prey in its jaws to brings its prey under water and drown it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEATH ROLL


casserole
ˈkæsəˌrəʊl
control
kənˈtrəʊl
drole
drəʊl
parole
pəˈrəʊl
patrol
pəˈtrəʊl
payroll
ˈpeɪˌrəʊl
rock-and-roll
ˌrɒkənˈrəʊl
role
rəʊl
roll
rəʊl
scroll
skrəʊl
stroll
strəʊl
Tirol
tɪˈrəʊl
troll
trəʊl
Tyrol
tɪˈrəʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEATH ROLL

death house
death knell
death march
death mask
death metal
death notice
death penalty
death rate
death rattle
death ray
death row
death seat
death sentence
death squad
death tax
death threat
death throes
death toll
death tourist
death trap

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEATH ROLL

barrel roll
bread roll
Carroll
court roll
dinner roll
drum roll
egg roll
electoral roll
forward roll
French roll
honor roll
jam roll
jelly roll
muster roll
on a roll
piano roll
rock and roll
sausage roll
spring roll
swiss roll
toilet roll

Synonyms and antonyms of death roll in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «death roll» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEATH ROLL

Find out the translation of death roll to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of death roll from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «death roll» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡滚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rollo de la muerte
570 millions of speakers

English

death roll
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौत रोल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لفة الموت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смерть ролл
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rolo de morte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যুর রোল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rouleau de mort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kematian roll
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tod Rolle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死ロール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽음 롤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pati gulung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

danh sách người chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பு ரோல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यू रोल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölüm rulosu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rotolo di morte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rolka śmierć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

смерть рол
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rola moarte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

roll θανάτου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dood roll
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

död rulle
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

død roll
5 millions of speakers

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The term «death roll» is regularly used and occupies the 106.706 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH ROLL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about death roll

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEATH ROLL»

Discover the use of death roll in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to death roll and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Death Roll: A Snake Jones Zoo Mystery
DEATH ROLL was the first mystery novel to feature a zoologist sleuth and reveal what goes on behind the exhibits of a major metropolitan zoo.
Michael Mallory, 2011
2
Death Roll
In the Texas backwoods, a senseless killing fills a small town with fear. Claire Baxter was the closest thing to a mother Bo-Jack Shivers, martial artist and violent teen, ever had. Will he take more than revenge?
Ian Brown, 2006
3
Field of Glory: Ancient and Medieval Wargaming Rules
COHESION TESTS THE TEST THE EFFECT OF COHESION LEVELS DEATH ROLLS BASE REMOVAL AUTOBREAK DEATH ROLLS In addition to dropping cohesion levels, a battle result of the death roll. This is a simple pass/fail group can ...
Richard Bodley Scott, Simon Hall, Terry Shaw, 2008
4
Death Roll
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Iustinus Tim Avery, 2012
5
A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles
This was the most virulent period of the epidemic according to Bell, with a case- mortality rate of almost too per cent.2 Even so, the published death-roll of plague was declared to be less than the truth by contemporary observers. Hodges ...
J. F. D. Shrewsbury, 2005
6
The Reluctant Politician
Billy Dot was housed in the last cell, the one furthest from the door leading into all the cells on death roll. Lights were recessed in the hall ceiling between each cell; Angel Cain's cell was directly across from Billy Dot's cell. As Captain Thorp ...
Chick Lung, 2011
7
Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian ...
The crocodile took her into a death roll - 'a centrifuge of whirling, boiling blackness, which seemed about to tear my limbs from my body, driving water into my bursting lungs' (Plumwood, 1996). After what seemed an eternity, the fury ended and ...
Martin Mulligan, Stuart Hill, 2001
8
The Ultimate Journey: Inspiring Stories of Living and Dying
Few of those who have experienced the crocodile's death roll have lived to describe it. It is, essentially, an experience beyond words of total terror, total helplessness, total certainty, experienced with undivided mind and body, of a terrible death ...
James O'Reilly, Sean O'Reilly, Richard Sterling, 2000
9
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the ...
... totally accurate, and Soviet and Western estimates agree that it is too low by 1.2-1.5 million,1 (about 800,000 of it attributed to the Ukraine). This would mean an increase of almost half a million in the death roll estimates. But the convenience ...
Robert Conquest, 1987
10
English History 1914-1945
The Empire lost another 2oo,oo0—-nearly a third of them Indians; in all, a death roll approaching one million. The price of victory, though high, was less than that paid by other countries. France, for instance, with a smaller population than the ...
A. J. P. Taylor, 1965

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEATH ROLL»

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1
Vyapam deaths not sensational enough? Flashbulbs of Lalit-gate …
The death roll of Vyapam features a trainee sub-inspector, an assistant veterinary officer, a pharmacist, a college dean, a student. It's the death ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
2
Father recalls terrifying gator attack in Chambers County lake
"...then I seen an alligator do a death roll," adds the teen's grandfather Mark Ford. Kaleb Hurley, 13, was in the jaws of a 10-foot-long alligator. «KTRK-TV, Jul 15»
3
Indonesia plane crash: children, paying passengers among 141 …
Following a failed leftist coup attempt in 1965, the Indonesian military carried out a bloody purge of suspected communists, with the death roll ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
4
Flight of Britons killed in terror attack return to Oxfordshire
The death roll is expected rise as 30 Britons are believed to be among the 38 shot dead by student Seifeddine Rezgui at the beach resort of ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
5
McMillan: Gators key attractions of the Lowcountry
Alligators swallow small animals whole, but drag larger prey underwater, spinning their meal around in a "death roll" and tearing it into smaller ... «Hilton Head Island Packet, Jun 15»
6
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15: Team SCA's triumph
“I was half way through putting my trousers on when, bang, the sail broke and we went into a Chinese gybe [also known as a 'death roll'],” says ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
Column: A call for treatment
And so with a steady cadence the cycle of overdoses and death roll on. This is the central fix in the system we most desperately need. Its going ... «Gloucester Daily Times, Jun 15»
8
An Ode to LeBron, Try not to vomit. 6-18-15
Noticed there was in the contrast Don it was in the bank it's like a death roll like when your way to make it died golf which rated don't toast. «WEEI.com, Jun 15»
9
Pakistan hangs 7 convicts two days after imposing moratorium on …
... more than 150 people have been hanged and Amnesty states that there are at least 8,000 convicts on death roll in jails across Pakistan. «International Business Times UK, Jun 15»
10
Giant Australian croc chomps on another in front of tour boat
The larger reptile, known as Maxi, then dragged its catch through the water in a "death roll" in which the animals spin their victims through water ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

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