Enroll

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: en=roll

CIDE DICTIONARY

Enroll, v. t. [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enrôler; pref. en- (L. in) + rôle roll or register. See Roll, n.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]

  "All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves."  [1913 Webster]
•  To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Enroll

affiliate, affiliate with, associate, book, calendar, call up, carve, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check in, chronicle, combine, come into, commandeer, conscript, creep in, cut, detach, detach for service, docket, draft, engrave, enlist, enscroll, enter, enumerate, file, fill out, get into, go into, grave, impanel, impress, inaugurate, incise, index, induct, initiate, inscribe, insert, install, instate, inventory, invest, itemize, join, join up, jot down, keep score, league with, levy, line up, list, log, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, minute, mobilize, muster, muster in, note, note down, ordain, pigeonhole, place upon record, poll, post, post up, press, program, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, raise, record, recruit, reduce to writing, register, schedule, score, set down, sign on, sign up, sneak in, summon, tabulate, take down, take out membership, take up membership, tally, tape, tape-record, team up with, team with, videotape, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

ROGET THESAURUS

Enroll

Warfare

VB arm, raise troops, mobilize troops, raise up in arms, take up the cudgels, take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword, draw the sword, unsheathe the sword, dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk, go to war, wage war, let slip the dogs of war, cry havoc, kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war, raise one's banner, raise the fire cross, hoist the black flag, throw away, fling away the scabbard, enroll, enlist, take the field, take the law into one's own hands, do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle, flesh one's sword, set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords, come to blows, come to close quarters, fight, combat, contend, battle with, break a lance with, raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger, serve, see service, be on service, be on active service, campaign, wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire, spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood, on the warpath, carry on war, carry on hostilities, keep the field, fight the good fight, fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand, sell one's life dearly, pay the ferryman's fee.

Commission

VB commission, delegate, depute, consign, assign, charge, intrust, entrust, commit, commit to the hands of, authorize, put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain, install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown, enroll, enlist, give power of attorney to, employ, empower, set over, place over, send out, be commissioned, be accredited, represent, stand for, stand in the stead of, stand in the place of, stand in the shoes of.

Record

VB record, put on record, place on record, chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity, keep up the memory, commemorate, report, write, commit to writing, reduce to writing, put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white, put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down, note, minute, put on paper, take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum, make a return, mark, sign, enter, book, post, post up, insert, make an entry of, mark off, tick off, register, enroll, inscroll, file, burn into memory, carve in stone.