Roe vs Deprive - What's the difference?
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The eggs of fish.
The sperm of certain fish.
The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
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* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
As a noun roe
is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground.As a verb deprive is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-) (wikipedia roe)Quotations
* 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)Synonyms
* (sperm) miltDerived terms
* hard roe * soft roe * white roeSee also
* caviar * eggReferences
Etymology 2
(etyl) ro, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun) (Roe Deer)Synonyms
* roe deer, chevreuilDerived terms
* roebuckAnagrams
* * ----deprive
English
Verb
(depriv)- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
- If we had been deprived' of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be ' deprived of philosophy.