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👅 Trilled speech 🌸 Curled inward 🧻 Folded up
rolled

rolled

2.1
You fold something into a tight tube for carrying
  • adjective
  • /roʊld/
translation icon : enrollado
  • The map was rolled tightly and secured with a rubber band.

It's a piece of skin, it's rolled up very much like that.

Examples

  • It's really a parchment rolled up within itself.

  • And A and A and a bandana rolled up in their back pocket.

  • So this is a map with of paper rolled onto it in a little box.

  • It's a piece of skin, it's rolled up very much like that.

    Computerphile

  • And you give him this hand rolled to your daughter.

  • But right now, in front of her, there are rows of rolled up Turkey in grass.

  • You didn't want it rolled up in a little bit of tissue like this.

  • She carefully placed the rolled blanket in the trunk of the car.

  • The gift was beautifully wrapped and rolled in colorful paper.

Synonyms

coiled
vsrolled
1 4.3

Shaped like tight rings or spirals

emphasizes a tight cylindrical wrap and being fastened rather than spiral rings
furled
vsrolled
7.0

Rolled up and tied so it stays closed, like a flag or umbrella

is the general action of wrapping or winding many objects tightly and fastening them

Antonyms

loose
70 1.0

Not tightly packed with many spaces between parts

Idioms

rolled into one
16 4.4

Having more than one role or quality at the same time

Compounds

rolled oats
1 2.0

Grains that are steamed and flattened to make porridge or granola

rolled biscuit
  • UK
2.9

A small flat baked treat made from dough rolled and cut before baking

rolled out sod
  • US
4.7

Fresh grass cut into rolls that you lay on bare soil

How Rolled

rolled
2.1
coiled
1 4.3
wound
8 7.7
wrapped
1.0
fold
84 2.4

Surface Forms

rolled positive

Morphology

rolled = roll (transparent) = roll + ed

The meaning 'folded or wound into a cylindrical shape' is a direct, literal result of 'roll' + '-ed', so learners can derive it easily.

Etymology

Rolled (for objects) comes from the verb roll, related to Latin rota meaning 'wheel' or 'turn'. It means something has been turned or wound into a tube or cylinder, just like you 'roll' up a carpet or a sheet of paper.