Rove

[rəʊv] or [rov]

解釋/意思:

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

(v. t.) To wander over or through.

(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

塞西尔編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Roam, ramble, stroll, range, wander, stray, straggle, wander about, rove around, gad about.

彻姬塔編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See DEFEAT]

埃利斯手打

解釋/意思:

v.t. to wander over: to plough into ridges.—v.i. to wander about: to ramble: to range: to aim as in archery at some casual mark: to be light-headed: to be full of fun.—n. a wandering.—ns. Rō′ver one who roves: a robber or pirate: a wanderer: an inconstant person: in archery a person shooting with a long bow and arrow: an arrow used by a rover: an irregular point to be aimed at: in croquet a ball that has gone through all the hoops; Rō′very; Rō′ving the act of wandering.—adv. Rō′vingly.—n. Rō′vingness.—Shoot at rovers to shoot at random.

v.t. to draw through an eye: to bring wool into the form it receives before being spun into thread: to ravel out thread: to undo what has been knit: to card.—n. a roll of wool or cotton drawn out and twisted.—ns. Rō′ving the process of giving the first twist to yarn: a slightly twisted sliver of carded fibre; Rō′ving-frame a machine for the manufacture of cotton and worsted; Rō′ving-machine′ a machine for winding on bobbins; Rō′ving-plate a scraper used for giving a grindstone a true circular form; Rō′ving-reel a device for measuring a hank of yarn.

杰克校對