Verb

(head)

(digress)

Verb

(es)

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

* Holland

Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

* John Locke

In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.

* {{quote-song

, year = 1959 , title = In Old Mexico , composer = (Tom Lehrer) , passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .) }}

To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

* Shakespeare

Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.

Verb

(head)

(roam)

Verb

(en verb)

To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]

Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam . Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.

(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.

To or wander over.

* (John Milton)

And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}