Rove vs Wade - What's the difference?
rove | wade |
(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)
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 verb rove
is (obsolete|intransitive) to shoot with arrows (at) or rove can be (rive).As a noun rove
is a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.As a proper noun wade is
.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
* * ----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