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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROIL

Of unknown origin; compare rile.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ROIL

roil  [rɔɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roil is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb roil in English.

WHAT DOES ROIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of roil in the English dictionary

The first definition of roil in the dictionary is to make cloudy or turbid by stirring up dregs or sediment. Other definition of roil is to be agitated or disturbed. Roil is also to be noisy or boisterous.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ROIL

PRESENT

Present
I roil
you roil
he/she/it roils
we roil
you roil
they roil
Present continuous
I am roiling
you are roiling
he/she/it is roiling
we are roiling
you are roiling
they are roiling
Present perfect
I have roiled
you have roiled
he/she/it has roiled
we have roiled
you have roiled
they have roiled
Present perfect continuous
I have been roiling
you have been roiling
he/she/it has been roiling
we have been roiling
you have been roiling
they have been roiling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I roiled
you roiled
he/she/it roiled
we roiled
you roiled
they roiled
Past continuous
I was roiling
you were roiling
he/she/it was roiling
we were roiling
you were roiling
they were roiling
Past perfect
I had roiled
you had roiled
he/she/it had roiled
we had roiled
you had roiled
they had roiled
Past perfect continuous
I had been roiling
you had been roiling
he/she/it had been roiling
we had been roiling
you had been roiling
they had been roiling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will roil
you will roil
he/she/it will roil
we will roil
you will roil
they will roil
Future continuous
I will be roiling
you will be roiling
he/she/it will be roiling
we will be roiling
you will be roiling
they will be roiling
Future perfect
I will have roiled
you will have roiled
he/she/it will have roiled
we will have roiled
you will have roiled
they will have roiled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been roiling
you will have been roiling
he/she/it will have been roiling
we will have been roiling
you will have been roiling
they will have been roiling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would roil
you would roil
he/she/it would roil
we would roil
you would roil
they would roil
Conditional continuous
I would be roiling
you would be roiling
he/she/it would be roiling
we would be roiling
you would be roiling
they would be roiling
Conditional perfect
I would have roil
you would have roil
he/she/it would have roil
we would have roil
you would have roil
they would have roil
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been roiling
you would have been roiling
he/she/it would have been roiling
we would have been roiling
you would have been roiling
they would have been roiling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you roil
we let´s roil
you roil
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to roil
Past participle
roiled
Present Participle
roiling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROIL


boil
bɔɪl
Boyle
bɔɪl
broil
brɔɪl
coil
kɔɪl
Doyle
dɔɪl
foil
fɔɪl
gargoyle
ˈɡɑːɡɔɪl
Hoyle
hɔɪl
oil
ɔɪl
recoil
rɪˈkɔɪl
soil
sɔɪl
spoil
spɔɪl
toil
tɔɪl
topsoil
ˈtɒpˌsɔɪl
trefoil
ˈtrɛfɔɪl
turmoil
ˈtɜːmɔɪl
voile
vɔɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROIL

rogueries
roguery
rogues´ gallery
rogueship
roguish
roguishly
roguishness
Rohypnol
ROI
roid rage
roilier
roiliest
roiling
roily
roister
roisterer
roisterous
roisterously
rojak
roji

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROIL

aluminum foil
argan oil
burn the midnight oil
coconut oil
cooking oil
crude oil
essential oil
fuel oil
gas oil
heavy crude oil
motor oil
olive oil
palm oil
sunflower oil
sunflower seed oil
the good oil
the soil
tung oil
vegetable oil
virgin olive oil

Synonyms and antonyms of roil in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «roil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROIL

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

Translator English - Chinese

搅动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enturbiar
570 millions of speakers

English

roil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रोधित करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عكر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мутить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

turvar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘোলা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déstabiliserait
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Roil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

roil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混乱させる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

휘젓다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quậy nổi bùn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சகதியாக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिलिला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

roil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

roil
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

roil
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мутити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θολώνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

troebel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

roil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

roil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roil

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROIL»

The term «roil» is regularly used and occupies the 103.013 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROIL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «roil» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «roil» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROIL»

Discover the use of roil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Roil
File Under: Fantasy [ End Of The World | The Darkness Approaches | Addiction | On The Edge ] e-book ISBN: 9780857661852 From the Paperback edition.
Trent Jamieson, 2011
2
Building Open Source Network Security Tools: Components and ...
roil -m SHA1 blackbook Roil 1.0 [little encryption tool] SHA1 message digest of blackbook: 0417dbbcffd33e9fcef82b1cc7f7ab50556310a7 Obviously, this code is pretty standard. Another invocation of Roil, this time to encrypt the file by using  ...
Mike Schiffman, 2002
3
Pontiac GTO Restoration Guide 1964-1972
... Center Roil to Rear Roil 14.162 16 - BOLT, Center Rail to Rear Roil 14.155 17 - NUT, Rear Bow to Rear Roil 14.157 18 - RAIL ASM., Side Roof Rear 14.170 19 - NUT, Rear Rail to Mole Hinge 14.157 20 - BUSHING, Center Roil to Rear Roil ...
Paul Zazarine
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Dissertation on the Origin and Connection of the Gospels: ...
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James Smith, 1853
5
Night's Engines: The Nightbound Land
The wordhe'd been receiving – from the few spies they hadleft – suggested this was onlya small finger of theRoil fuelledby these airship engines. Infact, ithad broken offfrom themain body of the Roil,which remainedon the outskirtsof Mirrlees.
Trent Jamieson, 2012
6
Mother Jones Magazine
The crowd, oblivious to our private crisis, is now chanting in unison with the speaker, " Vive le roil Vive le roil Vive le roil" The last time I felt this way, I had appendicitis. THAT'S RIGHT: VIVE LE ROI. FRANCE is not, as most foreigners fondly ...
7
Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... sordid, sticky, sultry 7 clouded, squalid, unclean mucous 5 slimy 6 viscid mucronate 5 acute, piked, sharp 6 peaked 7 pointed 8 acicular 9 aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, cuspidate mucus 9 secretion mud 4 dirt, mire, ooze, rile, roil 5 dregs, ...
‎1995
8
GEūripídou Īfigéneia y̆ ēn Aūlídi. Euripidis Iphigenia in ...
jufiAiVrrtoi/ avpav aWoii aKXav dvaruv Xa'upcai yaipeiv, roil Se Xvirav, roil S' avaynav, toIc 2' eiropfiav, roil Be (rreAAeii', i-oio-t 3e /leAAeii/. »7 iroAii/uo^oi' k. t. A.. 12C4. fi's tovto y i)£et . . .tla anova art 8 (1322) IOirENEIA H EN AYAIAI.
Euripides, James Henry Monk (bp. of Gloucester and Bristol), 1840
9
A new abridgment of the law
So, where one made a lease for ninety-nine years of a manor, Cro.jac and after made the lessee bailiff of the fame manor for twenty-one ^ I7£ years, this was adjudged to be no surrender of his first lease : * Roil. * 1. Because the bailiff, as such, ...
Matthew Bacon, Henry Gwillim, 1798
10
Dragons: The Modern Infestation
In Marsden 's study of the dragon colony on Ascension, two-thirds of the roil he observed when he first arrived continued to grow in length and height, as well as in overall bulk, for several years beyond metabolic maturity. The largest in this ...
Pamela Wharton Blanpied, 1980

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roil is used in the context of the following news items.
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No Gold Rush as Greece and China Troubles Roil Markets
SYDNEY—Market mayhem is normally a buy signal for one asset: gold. But this time around the precious metal is the dog that hasn't barked. The commodity ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Leap Second Will Extend the Day, and Might Roil the Internet
To balance out a very gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation, scientists are adding an extra second to the day on Tuesday. The so-called leap second is ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
'Torture videos' roil Lebanon. Why that's a cause for optimism.
The potential of newly released videos showing mistreatment in a Lebanese prison to inflame sectarian passions and destabilize the country has raised hopes ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15»
4
With Backpacks and Exposed Skin, European Officials Roil Iranians
TEHRAN — The woman wore form-fitting clothes and a scarf wrapped around her head that revealed a few of her blond tresses. The men carried backpacks to ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
Fugitives Roil Soccer Probe in South America
BUENOS AIRES—A new mystery has emerged in the U.S. government's case against corruption in soccer's global governing body FIFA: the whereabouts of ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
6
Push to Change California Pensions Set to Roil Calpers
A group of politicians and business leaders is making a new effort to reduce California's mounting pension problems, with a ballot campaign that would curb ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
7
Proxy battles likely to roil gaming for years
A decade ago, activist hedge funds had $10 billion invested in proxy fights that sought to influence board elections, switch out management or change a ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 15»
8
Criminal Cases Roil Food Industry
A ConAgra Foods Inc. CAG -0.75 % unit agreed to pay a record fine and plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge stemming from a 2006-2007 salmonella ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
9
German Bunds' Swings Roil Government-Debt Markets
Government-debt markets were rattled once again on Thursday, as German bonds staged a sudden and sharp selloff before recovering, unnerving investors ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
10
British election upset could roil European markets
The British and continental European markets appear to have factored in a hung parliament in Thursday's United Kingdom elections. Investors are saying that ... «The Globe and Mail, May 15»

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