roving 音标拼音: [r'ovɪŋ]
a . 徘徊的,流动的
n . 流浪,漫游,粗纱
徘徊的,流动的流浪,漫游,粗纱
roving adj 1 :
migratory ; "
a restless mobile society "; "
the nomadic habits of the Bedouins "; "
believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future "; "
wandering tribes " [
synonym : {
mobile }, {
nomadic }, {
peregrine }, {
roving },
{
wandering }]
n 1 :
travelling about without any clear destination ; "
she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him " [
synonym :
{
wandering }, {
roving }, {
vagabondage }]
Rove \
Rove \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Roved };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Roving }.] [
Cf .
D .
rooven to rob ;
akin to E .
reave .
See {
Reave }, {
Rob }.]
1 .
To practice robbery on the seas ;
to wander about on the seas in piracy . [
Obs .] --
Hakluyt .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Hence ,
to wander ;
to ramble ;
to rauge ;
to go ,
move ,
or pass without certain direction in any manner ,
by sailing ,
walking ,
riding ,
flying ,
or otherwise .
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1913 Webster ]
For who has power to walk has power to rove .
--
Arbuthnot .
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3 . (
Archery )
To shoot at rovers ;
hence ,
to shoot at an angle of elevation ,
not at point -
blank (
rovers usually being beyond the point -
blank range ).
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1913 Webster ]
Fair Venus '
son ,
that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove .
--
Spenser .
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Syn :
To wander ;
roam ;
range ;
ramble stroll .
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Roving \
Rov "
ing \,
n .
1 .
The operatin of forming the rove ,
or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton ,
by means of a machine for the purpose ,
called a roving frame ,
or roving machine .
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2 .
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted ;
a rove .
See 2d {
Rove },
2 .
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{
Roving frame }, {
Roving machine },
a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine .
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Roving \
Rov "
ing \,
n .
The act of one who roves or wanders .
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1913 Webster ]
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "
roving ":
Wanderjahr ,
aberrant ,
aberrative ,
adrift ,
afloat ,
afoot and lighthearted ,
aimless ,
aimlessness ,
alternating ,
amorphous ,
bumming ,
by the way ,
capricious ,
changeable ,
changeful ,
circuitous ,
circumforaneous ,
departing ,
desultoriness ,
desultory ,
deviable ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
devious ,
digressive ,
digressiveness ,
discursion ,
discursive ,
discursiveness ,
divagation ,
divagatory ,
dizzy ,
drifting ,
eccentric ,
episodic ,
errant ,
errantry ,
erratic ,
excursive ,
fast and loose ,
fickle ,
fitful ,
flickering ,
flighty ,
flitting ,
floating ,
fluctuating ,
footloose ,
footloose and fancy -
free ,
freakish ,
fugitive ,
gadding ,
giddy ,
gypsy -
like ,
gypsyish ,
hoboism ,
impetuous ,
impulsive ,
inconsistent ,
inconstant ,
indecisive ,
indirect ,
infirm ,
irregular ,
irresolute ,
irresponsible ,
itineracy ,
itinerancy ,
labyrinthine ,
landloping ,
loose ,
maundering ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
mercurial ,
migrational ,
migratory ,
moody ,
nomad ,
nomadic ,
nomadism ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
perambulatory ,
peregrination ,
pererration ,
peripatetic ,
planetary ,
ramble ,
rambling ,
ranging ,
restless ,
roam ,
roaming ,
rove ,
scatterbrained ,
serpentine ,
shapeless ,
shifting ,
shifty ,
shuffling ,
snaky ,
spasmodic ,
spineless ,
straggling ,
stray ,
straying ,
strolling ,
swerving ,
traipsing ,
transient ,
transitory ,
transmigratory ,
turning ,
twisting ,
unaccountable ,
uncertain ,
uncontrolled ,
undependable ,
undirected ,
undisciplined ,
unfixed ,
unpredictable ,
unreliable ,
unrestrained ,
unsettled ,
unstable ,
unstable as water ,
unstaid ,
unsteadfast ,
unsteady ,
vacillating ,
vagabond ,
vagabondage ,
vagabondia ,
vagabondism ,
vagrancy ,
vagrant ,
variable ,
veering ,
vicissitudinary ,
vicissitudinous ,
volatile ,
wandering ,
wanderlust ,
wanton ,
wavering ,
wavery ,
wavy ,
wayfaring ,
wayward ,
whimsical ,
winding ,
wishy -
washy ,
zigzag
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