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Explode and Roll

verb

  • Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
    • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • Burst outward, usually with noise.
    • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • Show a violent emotional reaction.
    • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
    • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • Destroy by exploding.
    • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • (v.) ()
  • Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
    • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • (v.t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion or doctrine.
  • (v.t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
  • (v.t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
  • (v.i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
  • (v.t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
  • (v.i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
  • (v.i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

noun

  • Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
    • usage: "wheels in axial rotation"
  • A list of names.
    • usage: "his name was struck off the rolls"
  • A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.
  • Photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light.
  • A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals.
  • A roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.. )
    • usage: "he shot his roll on a bob-tailed nag"
  • Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
  • A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells.
  • The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously.
  • A document that can be rolled up (as for storage.
  • Anything rolled up in cylindrical form.
  • The act of throwing dice.
  • Walking with a swaying gait.
  • A flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude.
  • The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling.

verb

  • Move by turning over or rotating.
    • usage: "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
  • Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.
    • usage: "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
  • Occur in soft rounded shapes.
    • usage: "The hills rolled past"
  • Flatten or spread with a roller.
    • usage: "roll out the paper"
  • Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.
    • usage: "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
  • Arrange or or coil around.
    • usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • Begin operating or running.
    • usage: "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
  • Shape by rolling.
    • usage: "roll a cigarette"
  • Execute a roll, in tumbling.
    • usage: "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
  • Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.
  • Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
    • usage: "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  • Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
    • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
    • usage: "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
  • Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.
    • usage: "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
  • Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
    • usage: "She rolls her r's"
  • Boil vigorously.
    • usage: "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"
  • Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.
    • usage: "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
  • Show certain properties when being rolled.
    • usage: "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

Substituting a far option for a near option on the same underlying instrument at the same strike price; also to' Roll' forward or roll over.