Roving can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Adjective |
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| roving - migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" | ||
Verb |
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| rove - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" | ||
Noun |
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| roving - travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" |
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| 1. | verb | But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare. | |
| 2. | verb | Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet. | |
| 3. | verb | But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare. | |
| 4. | verb | Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet. |
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| But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare. | |
| Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet. | |
| But good AEneas, pondering through the night / distracting thoughts and many an anxious care, / resolved, when daybreak brought the gladsome light, / to search the coast, and back sure tidings bear, / what land was this, what habitants were there, / if man or beast, for, far as the eye could rove, / a wilderness the region seemed, and bare. | |
| Sojourner, the size of a microwave oven, demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet. | |