Roe vs Wade - 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 walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
As a noun roe
is a withe or rope or roe can be flat or level ground.As a proper noun wade 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
* * ----wade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate