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Assassin vs Rogue - What's the difference?

assassin | rogue |

As nouns the difference between assassin and rogue

is that assassin is a member of a Muslim militant group responsible for murdering Christian leaders during the Crusades while rogue is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

As verbs the difference between assassin and rogue

is that assassin is to assassinate while rogue is to cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

As an adjective rogue is

vicious and solitary.

assassin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A member of a Muslim militant group responsible for murdering Christian leaders during the Crusades.
  • *, II.29:
    • The Assassines , a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists of a soveraigne devotion and puritie of maners; they hold, that the readiest and shortest way to gaine Paradise, is to kill some one of a contrary religion.
  • Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin , a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
  • Any ruthless killer.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * (assassin spider) * assassinate * assassination * assassinator * assassinatrix * assassinous * royal assassin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard) To assassinate.

    • rogue

    English

    (wikipedia rogue)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues , but the one who set the tone for entire series.
  • A mischievous scamp.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
  • A vagrant.
  • Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself. (rfex)
  • An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  • A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
    • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue .
  • (label) A conduct.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vicious and solitary.
  • (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • * 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
  • Mischievous, unpredictable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (rogu)
  • (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
    • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
  • (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
    • (Cudworth)
  • (obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue wave

    See also

    * rouge the shade of red

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