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en⋅roll

  [en-rohl]
Use enroll in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
2. to enlist (oneself).
3. to put in a record; record: to enroll the minutes of a meeting; to enroll the great events of history.
4. to roll or wrap up: fruit enrolled in tissue paper.
5. Nautical. to document (a U.S. vessel) by issuing a certificate of enrollment.
–verb (used without object)
6. to enroll oneself: He enrolled in college last week.
Origin:
1300–50; ME enrollen < OF enroller. See en- 1 , roll

Related forms:
en⋅roll⋅er, noun
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en·roll also en·rol   (ěn-rōl')   
v.   en·rolled, en·roll·ing, en·rolls also en·rols

v.   tr.
  1. To enter or register in a roll, list, or record: enrolled the child in kindergarten; enroll the minutes of the meeting.
  2. To roll or wrap up.
  3. To write or print a final copy of; engross.
v.   intr.
To place one's name on a roll or register; sign up: We enrolled in the army.

[Middle English enrollen, from Old French enroller : en-, in; see en-1 + rolle, roll (from Latin rotula, little wheel; see roll).]
en·roll·ee' n.
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Enroll

En*roll"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enrolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling.] [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enr[^o]ler; pref. en- (L. in) + r[^o]le roll or register. See Roll, n.] [Written also enrol.]

1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. --Milton.

All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. --Prescott.

2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : enroll
Spanish: inscribir(se), matricular(se),
German: einschreiben,
Japanese: 名簿に載せる
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enroll 
c.1350, from O.Fr. enroller, from en- "make, put in" + rolle (see roll).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: en·roll
Variant: or en·rol
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: en·rolled; en·roll·ing
1 : to insert, register, or enter in a list, catalog, or roll <enrolled the deed>
2 : to prepare a final copy of (a bill passed by a legislature) in written or printed form —see also enrolled bill at BILL 1 —compare ENGROSS —en·roll·ment noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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