Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of rambling or wandering.
- n. Archery as practised by a rover. See rover, 4.
- n. The process of giving the first twist to yarn, or of forming a rove.
- n. A slightly twisted sliver of carded fiber, as wool or cotton; a rove.
Wiktionary
- adj. wandering freely.
- v. present participle of rove.
- n. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 , orroving machine . - n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
- n. The act of one who roves or wanders.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. migratory.
- n. travelling about without any clear destination
Examples
“After one more postdoctoral year which I spent in "roving" mode, spending time at Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, in the autumn of 1967 I took up a lectureship at the University of Sussex, where I was to spend the next fifteen years of my career.”
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“The unteased roving is on the left, the teased is on the right.”
“But though by concealment he may preserve the unruffled surface of their happiness, yet the longing to be roving is not completely extinguished.”
“With his glance roving from the quiet man to the quiet dog, he made a few tentative flutters toward the plate of cake.”
“Throughout the whole way, whether the eye and mind silently indulged in roving, or still better loved talk interrupted that, as it often did, Ellen was in a state of most unmixed and unruffled satisfaction.”
“His day was spent in roving through the bazar, exclaiming with a loud voice the above word,”
“Zuma Press In recent decades, the race has become known as a roving party in which participants don pink gorilla suits, storm trooper uniforms -- or, occasionally, go nude -- as they run, walk or stumble their way across the city.”
“In recent decades, it became known as a roving party in which participants who choose to wear clothes at all don costumes like pink gorilla suits as they run, walk or stumble their way across the city from San Francisco Bay to the waves, or breakers, of the Pacific Ocean.”
The Wall Street Journal: San Francisco's New Race Rules: Run Naked, Not Drunk
“I was very glad to get home to my family, but always loath to leave this special space that British fantasy author Graham Joyce so wisely termed a roving Brigadoon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roving’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Spinning
This list is basically an excuse for me to list the word wool four times in a row.
wool, spin, spinning, cotton, scribble, scribbler, scribbling, spindle whorl, spindlewhorl, card, card-clothing, carding-machine and 68 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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A Parthian Shot: Archery Words
Just what it says. Archery rocks.
bow, arrow, longbow, crossbow, barebow, recurve, compound bow, flight, arrowhead, nock, feather, yew and 197 more...
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Wordwild's Delights
Delightful words to read and use
plangent, ribald, titubant, sidereal, pelagic, improvident, dolorous, parlous, baleful, precatory, pied, mephitic and 247 more...
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words I love
uncouth, milquetoast, clusterfuck, salacious, usurp, harpoon, unsavoury, bulwark, legerdemain, qualm, quagmire, trumps and 209 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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english
gullet, boon, vixen, squalor, mire, revelry, levy, embossed, revulsion, vanquish, snivel, milksop and 84 more...
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Words
eloquent, lodestar, rapacious, bulwark, overweening, despises, vituperative, coattails, coattail, burble, ramble, roving and 49 more...
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dodonoodles's Words
provision, royal society, charcoal, shaft, impellant, colliery, valve, physicist, smelter, piston, conduit, trough and 80 more...
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Movements
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by night he scorches, as he burns by ...
sweltering, blistering, sultry, stormy, wandering, roving, devil-may-care
Tweets
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'They used a roving microphone.' Aug 24, 2011
bilby
Her scant skirt spreads above her knees.
Her hands lie folded in her lap.
She looks ahead, and does not shrink
To see the mixed crowd nudge and gape,
While dirty men with roving eyes '
Press close and whisper, 'Look!
Tattooed wherever you can see!
Say, she’s a walkin’ pitcher-book!'
- Vine McCasland, 'Circus'. Sep 21, 2009