Fighter vs Rogue - What's the difference?
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A person who fights, a combatant.
A warrior; fighting soldier.
A pugnacious, competitive person.
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
A boxer or participant in any martial art.
(colloquial) A firefighter
(video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
* 2004 , Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks (page 59)
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
As a noun fighter
is a person who fights, a combatant.As a verb rogue is
.fighter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Still, it's excellent software, especially for one-on-one fighting titles such as the King Of Fighters series, classic Street Fighter II variants, and newer one-on-one fighters such as Garou.
Derived terms
* cage fighter * freedom fighter * prizefighter * (aircraft) fighter-bomber, fighter-interceptor, fighter plane, foo fighter, fighter jet, stealth fighter, strike fighterAnagrams
* *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)