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Definitions for Roving

[1] roaming or wandering.
[2] not assigned or restricted to any particular location, area, topic, etc.: a roving editor.
[3] not assigned to any particular diplomatic post but having a special mission: a roving ambassador.
[4] a soft strand of fiber that has been twisted, attenuated, and freed of foreign matter preparatory to its conversion into yarn.
[5] the final phase of carding, in which this is done.
[6] to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.
[7] to wander over or through; traverse: to rove the woods.
[8] an act or instance of roving.
[9] a simple past tense and past participle of reeve2.
[10] to form (slivers of wool, cotton, etc.) into slightly twisted strands in a preparatory process of spinning.
[11] to draw fibers or the like through an eye or other small opening.
[12] to attenuate, compress, and twist slightly in carding.
[13] British . roving2.
[14] to wander about (a place) with no fixed direction; roam
[15] (intr) (of the eyes) to look around; wander
[16] have a roving eye to show a widespread amorous interest in the opposite sex
[17] (intr) Australian rules football to play as a rover
[18] the act of roving
[19] (tr) to pull out and twist (fibres of wool, cotton, etc) lightly, as before spinning or in carding
[20] wool, cotton, etc, thus prepared
[21] a metal plate through which a rivet is passed and then clenched over
[22] a past tense and past participle of reeve 2

Words related to Roving

peripatetic, wandering, itinerant, mobile, roaming, vagrant, ambulatory, peregrine, rambling, moving, floating, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, migratory, nomadic

Words nearby Roving

rove, rove beetle, rove-over, rover, rover boy, roving, roving commission, rovno, rovuma, row, row house

Origin of Roving

e3First recorded in 1780–90; of obscure origin

Other words from Roving

rov·ing·ly , adverb
rov·ing·ness , noun

Word origin for Roving

eC15: from Scandinavian; compare Icelandic ro

Synonyms for Roving

itinerant, peripatetic, wandering, ambulatory, mobile, peregrine, roaming, vagrant, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, migratory, nomadic