Rogue vs Contract - What's the difference?
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A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
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A mischievous scamp.
* Shakespeare
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.
(label) A conduct.
Vicious and solitary.
(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Mischievous, unpredictable.
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, title= (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.
(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
(obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
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, title= (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
* Robert Recorde, , 1557:
(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
* Wordsworth
* Dr. H. More
(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To enter into a contract with. (rfex)
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
* Hakluyt
* Strype
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
* Alexander Pope
* Jonathan Swift
To gain or acquire (an illness).
* 1999 , Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals (page 69)
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To betroth; to affiance.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between rogue and contract
is that rogue is while contract is (ambitransitive) to draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.As a noun contract is
an agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.As an adjective contract is
(obsolete) contracted; affianced; betrothed.rogue
English
(wikipedia rogue)Noun
(en noun)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. […]”}}
- 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.
- Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
- 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 .
Synonyms
* SeeAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
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)- 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.
- (Cudworth)
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue waveSee also
* rouge the shade of redAnagrams
* ----contract
English
(wikipedia contract)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) contract, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of .Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Hypernyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) agreementHyponyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) bailmentDerived terms
* contractual * fixed-term contract * contract of employmentAdjective
(-)- (Shakespeare)
- But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Ab?tracte'': and other called nombers ''Contracte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) contracter, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of . the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.Verb
(en verb)- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
- to contract one's sphere of action
- Years contracting to a moment.
- In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
- The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
- We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.
- Many persons prohibited by law.
- to contract for carrying the mail
- She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
- to contract a debt
- Each from each contract new strength and light.
- Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.
- An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- The truth is, she and I, long since contracted , / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.