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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. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] For who has power to walk has power to rove. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 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). [ 1913 Webster] Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d { Rove}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] { Roving frame}, { Roving machine}, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine. [ 1913 Webster]
Roving \ Rov" ing\, n. The act of one who roves or wanders. [ 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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