Rogue vs Weed - What's the difference?

rogue | weed |

As a verb rogue

is .

As a noun weed is

pasture or weed can be willow.

rogue

English

(wikipedia rogue)

Noun

(en noun)

A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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. […]”}}

* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]

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.

A mischievous scamp.

* Shakespeare

Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!

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.

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 .

(label) A conduct.

Synonyms

* See

Adjective

(en adjective)

Vicious and solitary.

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

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.

Mischievous, unpredictable.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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)

(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.

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.

(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

(Cudworth)

(obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

(Spenser)

(Webster 1913)

Derived terms

* roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue wave

Anagrams

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weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= 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.}}

# (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)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

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.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

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!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

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