Rogue vs Weed - What's the difference?
rogue | weed |
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
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.
A plant.
# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
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, title= # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
# Short for duckweed.
# Underbrush; low shrubs.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1809-1892)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
# Marijuana.
# Tobacco.
# A cigar.
A horse unfit to breed from.
A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
* 1599 ,
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
* Milton
(wee)
As a verb rogue
is .As a noun weed is
pasture or weed can be willow.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)
Derived terms
* roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue waveSee also
* rouge the shade of redAnagrams
* ----weed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
- A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweedSee also
* grow like a weed * weedsEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* weed outEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.Noun
(en noun)- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
