Roe vs Evil - 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.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
* Shakespeare
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
* , chapter=16
, title= Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
* (Shakespeare)
* Addison
As nouns the difference between roe and evil
is that roe is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground while evil is moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.As an adjective evil is
intending to harm; malevolent.roe
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
* * ----evil
English
Adjective
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
* nefarious * malicious * malevolent * See alsoAntonyms
* goodDerived terms
* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilnessNoun
(wikipedia evil)- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
- The evil that men do lives after them.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .