Rove vs Roamed - What's the difference?
rove | roamed |
(obsolete) To shoot with arrows (at).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
To roam or wander through.
* Milton
To card wool or other fibres.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
* Young
(rive)
(roam)
To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
To or wander over.
* (John Milton)
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As verbs the difference between rove and roamed
is that rove is (obsolete|intransitive) to shoot with arrows (at) or rove can be (rive) while roamed is (roam).As a noun rove
is a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.rove
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; perhaps a dialectal form of (rave).Verb
(rov)- And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue [...].
- Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
- Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
- (Jamieson)
- (Hakluyt)
Derived terms
* rover * roved * rovingNoun
(en noun)- In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----roamed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*roam
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam . Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam .
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