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Definition of roll call in English: roll callnoun 1The process of calling out a list of names to establish who is present. Example sentencesExamples - Booker T. Washington, who created his last name so that he could properly respond to his teacher's roll-call, observes that changing names was one of the first acts of the newly emancipated slaves.
- ‘Let's take a roll-call of citizens, then,’ suggested Val.
- As we gathered for morning roll-call, he emerged from his one-man tent in the uniform of a Japanese officer of the Imperial Army.
- The minute after roll-call was taken, Janet sensed something was different.
- Her one good deed was to save the life of Edgia, another camp inmate, by hiding her under a bunk during roll-call.
- The deputy director of the Navy Fleet Command's political warfare department said that there were negligence and flaws in evening roll-calls aboard the warship.
- Other escape ideas included ‘Max’, a life-size dummy used to cover up for missing escapees during roll-calls, and specially designed ladders to scale the perimeter fence.
- The days pass, interminable and empty, without the slightest occupation, without any other obligation beyond presence at the roll-calls in the morning and at midday.
Synonyms assembly, rally, meeting, round-up, convocation, mobilization, gathering, assemblage, congregation, convention - 1.1 A list or group of people or things that are notable in some specified way.
a roll call of young hopefuls Example sentencesExamples - Computer discs also feature on the roll-call of un-Islamic products, as do ties, lipstick, nail polish, catalogues showing pictures of people, movies, satellite dishes and pig fat.
- The poem's ostensible subjects are a typical enough roll-call of his concerns.
- The roll-call of interviewees foregrounds his allegiances, while failing to illuminate the problems of American racial politics.
- Perhaps it's time to disprove this belief with a roll-call of independent music teachers who can and do have sufficient income to ‘support a household.’
- Any survey of that time reads like a roll-call of Germany's most famous composers, conductors and executants.
- They have definitely got their act together in that department and have a roll-call of trade fairs coming up.
- He has identified and analysed key icons in his usual provocative fashion, a cheerleader for a roll-call of many of the great from the world of architecture.
- Turning from subjects to contributors, the roll-call is undeniably impressive.
- The roll-call makes it hard for the reader to get a grip on the big picture.
- At the height of his career, Giles's client list resembled a roll-call of London and Dublin society.
- Nevertheless, not even this roll-call of masterpieces can compare with the best of the Duke's Titians.
- The roll-call of publishers, newspapers and film & TV companies involved in The Academy is as impressive as the list of patrons.
- Previous winners constitute a roll-call of those who have shaped physics in the 20th century.
- His films include a roll-call of classics: The Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together and In the Mood for Love.
- On the other hand, the roll-call of stellar names should be enough to impress even the most sceptical.
- The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies.
- It is implicit in this roll-call of composers that the idea of a renaissance in music is not to do with a common style, but rather with shared ideals.
- Every self-respecting hip-hop fan should have a copy of this album which features an impressive roll-call of significant and major names in hip-hop.
- Its indicative of the society we live in these days that we all appear on numerous computer based roll-calls of our names and addresses.
- From the goldsmiths, the spotlight moves to the patrons, where the ledgers reveal not simply a roll-call of the major aristocratic names of the day but also a more egalitarian mix of customers.
Definition of roll call in US English: roll callnounˈrōl ˌkôl 1The process of calling out a list of names to establish who is present. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Let's take a roll-call of citizens, then,’ suggested Val.
- As we gathered for morning roll-call, he emerged from his one-man tent in the uniform of a Japanese officer of the Imperial Army.
- Her one good deed was to save the life of Edgia, another camp inmate, by hiding her under a bunk during roll-call.
- Booker T. Washington, who created his last name so that he could properly respond to his teacher's roll-call, observes that changing names was one of the first acts of the newly emancipated slaves.
- Other escape ideas included ‘Max’, a life-size dummy used to cover up for missing escapees during roll-calls, and specially designed ladders to scale the perimeter fence.
- The days pass, interminable and empty, without the slightest occupation, without any other obligation beyond presence at the roll-calls in the morning and at midday.
- The minute after roll-call was taken, Janet sensed something was different.
- The deputy director of the Navy Fleet Command's political warfare department said that there were negligence and flaws in evening roll-calls aboard the warship.
Synonyms assembly, rally, meeting, round-up, convocation, mobilization, gathering, assemblage, congregation, convention - 1.1 A list or group of people or things that are notable in some specified way.
the roll call of nations that lack full religious rights Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, not even this roll-call of masterpieces can compare with the best of the Duke's Titians.
- His films include a roll-call of classics: The Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together and In the Mood for Love.
- The roll-call of celebrated women expanded from the traditional saints, queens, Biblical heroines and aristocratic savantes to include middle-class bluestockings, actresses and other non-elite prodigies.
- The roll-call of interviewees foregrounds his allegiances, while failing to illuminate the problems of American racial politics.
- The roll-call makes it hard for the reader to get a grip on the big picture.
- Turning from subjects to contributors, the roll-call is undeniably impressive.
- They have definitely got their act together in that department and have a roll-call of trade fairs coming up.
- The poem's ostensible subjects are a typical enough roll-call of his concerns.
- At the height of his career, Giles's client list resembled a roll-call of London and Dublin society.
- Its indicative of the society we live in these days that we all appear on numerous computer based roll-calls of our names and addresses.
- Computer discs also feature on the roll-call of un-Islamic products, as do ties, lipstick, nail polish, catalogues showing pictures of people, movies, satellite dishes and pig fat.
- Previous winners constitute a roll-call of those who have shaped physics in the 20th century.
- It is implicit in this roll-call of composers that the idea of a renaissance in music is not to do with a common style, but rather with shared ideals.
- On the other hand, the roll-call of stellar names should be enough to impress even the most sceptical.
- Every self-respecting hip-hop fan should have a copy of this album which features an impressive roll-call of significant and major names in hip-hop.
- Any survey of that time reads like a roll-call of Germany's most famous composers, conductors and executants.
- From the goldsmiths, the spotlight moves to the patrons, where the ledgers reveal not simply a roll-call of the major aristocratic names of the day but also a more egalitarian mix of customers.
- The roll-call of publishers, newspapers and film & TV companies involved in The Academy is as impressive as the list of patrons.
- He has identified and analysed key icons in his usual provocative fashion, a cheerleader for a roll-call of many of the great from the world of architecture.
- Perhaps it's time to disprove this belief with a roll-call of independent music teachers who can and do have sufficient income to ‘support a household.’
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