Rover vs Roves - What's the difference?
rover | roves |
(archery, usually plural) A randomly selected target.
One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
Position in Australian Rules football, one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
(croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
(obsolete) A sort of arrow.
* Ben Jonson
A pirate or pirate ship.
* Holland
(rove)
(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)
As a noun rover
is a randomly selected target.As a proper noun Rover
is a stereotypical name for a dog.As a verb roves is
third-person singular of rove.rover
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- 1890' ''"By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or '''rovers , better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails." '' — Arthur Conan Doyle, ''The White Company ,
Chapter 22.
- 1846' ''But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous '''rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.'' — Herman Melville, ''Typee ,
Chapter 1.
- She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.
- 1954' ''Give him the word, that I'm not a '''rover , and tell him that his lonely days are over.
- The Mars Exploration Rovers will act as robot geologists while they are on the surface of Mars.
NASA site.
- All sorts, flights, rovers , and butt shafts.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), roven , to rob. Cognate with Danish and NorwegianNoun
(en noun)- 1719' ''The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish '''rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.'' — Daniel Defoe, ''Robinnson Crusoe ,
Chapter 2.
- Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honour more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships.
roves
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *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.