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UK
/ɹˈəʊvɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹoʊvɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹoʊvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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migratory
wandering tribes
believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future
a restless mobile society
the nomadic habits of the Bedouins
NOUN
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travelling about without any clear destination
she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
How To Use roving In A Sentence
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
- The report criticized a former commissioner and two device division leaders for their role in approving Menaflex. FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred
- Our products aim at improving your English skills.
- Her condition is not improving as we hoped. You must prepare yourselves for the worst.
- Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
- Among an ever-improving crop of pivotmen, Duncan is still the most dependable and fundamentally sound.
- It is simply not the case that prison conditions are improving.
- This prevents the chromophore from migrating within the polymer while simultaneously improving the efficiency of energy transfer to the chromophore.
- He and Gross also want to find other genes involved in fruit softening in hopes of further improving firmness or viscosity.