Found 3 items, similar to Roving.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: roving
pengelanaan, pengembaraan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: roving
roving
adj : (of groups of people) tending to travel and change
settlements frequently;
“a restless mobile society”;
“the nomadic habits of the Bedouins”;
“believed the
profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy
future”;
“wandering tribes” [syn:
mobile,
nomadic,
peregrine,
wandering]
n : travelling about without any clear destination;
“she
followed him in his wanderings and looked after him”
[syn:
wandering,
vagabondage]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Roving
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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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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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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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.
The act of one who roves or wanders.
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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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