Roving

['rəʊvɪŋ] or ['rovɪŋ]

解釋/意思:

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rove

(n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.

(n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.

整理:桑娅

例句/造句/用法:

You are that restless and that roving-- Yes! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
It covered carding, drawing, and roving machines for use in preparing silk, cotton, flax, and wool for spinning. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
You should not be roving about now; it looks very ill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
You are a strange child, Miss Jane, she said, as she looked down at me; a little roving, solitary thing: and you are going to school, I suppose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
I'm roving about so, it's impossible to be regular, you know. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
The halt in that roving, restless life was inexpressibly soothing and pleasant to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
But roving has never been favorable to the formation of steady habits. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
What are you roving about at this time of night for? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
Not that this would have worried him much, anyway--he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person, was my uncle, gentlemen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
The rovings of cotton went under a bar-clasp that took the place of the spinner’s finger and thumb. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
The workman drew out the rovings by moving the clasp back and forth, and at the same time turned the crank with his right hand to rotate the spindles. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
The rovings extended from these bobbins to a reciprocating clasp held in the left hand of the workman, and thence extended to the spindles at the end of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.

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