ROLL UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roll up mean? 

• ROLL UP (verb)
  The verb ROLL UP has 7 senses:

1. form into a cylinder by rolling

2. get or gather together

3. arrive in a vehicle:

4. make into a bundle

5. close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle

6. form a cylinder by rolling

7. show certain properties when being rolled

  Familiarity information: ROLL UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROLL UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form into a cylinder by rolling

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

furl; roll up

Context example:

Roll up the cloth

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)

Verb group:

roll; roll up (show certain properties when being rolled)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roll up"):

douse (lower quickly)

reef (roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area)

bolt (make or roll into bolts)

gather in; take in (fold up)

brail (take in a sail with a brail)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roll up"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Arrive in a vehicle:

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

He rolled up in a black Mercedes

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make into a bundle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bundle; bundle up; roll up

Context example:

he bundled up his few possessions

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

pack (arrange in a container)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

she rolled up the window when it started to rain

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

close; shut (move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Form a cylinder by rolling

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

roll up; wrap up

Context example:

roll up a banner

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Verb group:

roll; roll up (show certain properties when being rolled)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

unfurl (unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Show certain properties when being rolled

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

roll; roll up

Context example:

dried-out tobacco rolls badly

Hypernyms (to "roll up" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

roll up; wrap up (form a cylinder by rolling)

furl; roll up (form into a cylinder by rolling)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s Adjective

 Context examples 

It had managed to roll up in a ball again, but it was not quite the old compact ball; its muscles were too much torn for that.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Nay, I shall go! I shall go!” said Alleyne hurriedly, as Hordle John began to slowly roll up his sleeve, and bare an arm like a leg of mutton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There will be a mood of let’s roll up our sleeves and get the work done for now—you will not be in an environment where VIPs will want to listen to you describe imaginative, large-scale ideas—save those for later.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But the porcupine, squealing and grunting, with disrupted anatomy trying feebly to roll up into its ball-protection, flicked out its tail again, and again the big cat squalled with hurt and astonishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)