Английский Этимологический словарь - rove
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~ v 1 to travel from one place to another (roving reporter (=someone who works for a newspaper or television company, and moves from place to place)) 2 if someone's eyes rove, they look continuously from one part of something to another + around/over (Benedict's eyes roved boldly over her sleeping body.) 3 have a roving eye old-fashioned to be always looking for a chance to have romantic relationships ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(roves, roving, roved) 1. If someone roves about an area or roves an area, they wander around it. (LITERARY) ...roving about the town in the dead of night and seeing something peculiar... She became a photographer, roving the world with her camera in her hand. = roam VERB: V prep/adv, V n 2. see also roving ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. verb (~d; roving) Etymology: earlier, to shoot at random, wander, of unknown origin Date: 1536 intransitive verb to move aimlessly ; roam transitive verb to wander through or over Synonyms: see wander II. noun Date: 1606 an act or instance of wandering III. past and past participle of reeve IV. transitive verb (~d; roving) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1789 to join (textile fibers) with a slight twist and draw out into roving V. noun Date: 1789 roving ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. v. & n. --v. 1 intr. wander without a settled destination, roam, ramble. 2 intr. (of eyes) look in changing directions. 3 tr. wander over or through. --n. an act of roving (on the rove). Phrases and idioms rove-beetle any long-bodied beetle of the family Staphylinidae, usu. found in decaying animal and vegetable matter. roving commission authority given to a person or persons conducting an inquiry to travel as may be necessary. roving eye a tendency to ogle or towards infidelity. Etymology: ME, orig. a term in archery = shoot at a casual mark with the range not determined, perh. f. dial. rave stray, prob. of Scand. orig. 2. past of REEVE(2). 3. n. & v. --n. a sliver of cotton, wool, etc., drawn out and slightly twisted. --v.tr. form into roves. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn. 4. n. a small metal plate or ring for a rivet to pass through and be clenched over, esp. in boat-building. Etymology: ON r{oacute}, with excrescent v ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. (бесцельная) прогулка, скитания to be on the rove —- бродить, скитаться 2. с-х. мелкая пахота, легкое рыхление 3. скитаться, бродить без цели to rove the streets —- бродить по улицам to rove in every land —- побывать везде, скитаться по белу свету he saw the searchlights roving the sky —- он видел, как прожектора прорезали небо 4. блуждать (о глазах, мыслях) his eyes roved over the pictures —- его взор скользил по картинам his mind roved back to his youth —- он мысленно перенесся в свою молодость 5. ловить рыбу на живую приманку, на живца 6. тех. шайба 7. текст. ровница 8. пропускать через блок (трос и т. п.) 9. спец. пропускать через ушко 10. p. и p-p. от reeve ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I 1. noun странствие 2. v. 1) скитаться; странствовать; бродить 2) блуждать (о взгляде, мыслях) Syn: see wander II noun 1) tech. шайба 2) text. ровница ...Англо-русский словарь
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