{ "Rover Boy":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a physically brave and morally excellent person of somewhat limited outlook and experience":[ "trying to be the Rover Boy of the beachhead", "\u2014 R. M. Ingersoll" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "from the Rover boys , heroes of a series of juvenile books (1899\u20131925) by Edward Stratemeyer \u20201930 American writer":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-091400" }, "rove":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an act or instance of wandering":[], ": roving":[], ": to join (textile fibers) with a slight twist and draw out into roving":[], ": to move aimlessly : roam":[], ": to wander through or over":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb", "1782, in the meaning defined above":"Verb", "1789, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1550, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "earlier, to shoot at random, wander, of unknown origin":"Verb", "origin unknown":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8r\u014dv" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for rove Verb (1) wander , roam , ramble , rove , traipse , meander mean to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose. wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course. fond of wandering about the square just watching the people roam suggests wandering about freely and often far afield. liked to roam through the woods ramble stresses carelessness and indifference to one's course or objective. the speaker rambled on without ever coming to the point rove suggests vigorous and sometimes purposeful roaming. armed brigands roved over the countryside traipse implies a course that is erratic but may sometimes be purposeful. traipsed all over town looking for the right dress meander implies a winding or intricate course suggestive of aimless or listless wandering. the river meanders for miles through rich farmland", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101532", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "rove beetle":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": any of a family (Staphylinidae) of often predatory active beetles having a long body and very short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The tiny rove beetle , no bigger than a grain of rice, looked dangerously exposed on the bottom of the glass dish in Joe Parker\u2019s laboratory \u2014 and that was even before its fellow prisoner, an ant three times as big, advanced on it. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Aug. 2021", "When the rove beetle lifts its abdomen and bends apart the segments, the reservoir opens and squirts the mixture at ants or other predators. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Aug. 2021", "For protection, many rove beetle lineages independently evolved diverse defense glands that spray noxious chemicals from different points on their abdomen. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Aug. 2021", "One of Andrew\u2019s colleagues estimates that over 3 trillion insects from one family alone, the rove beetles , may have perished so far. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 8 Jan. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "circa 1771, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "perhaps from rove entry 1":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065836", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "rove-over":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": having an extrametrical syllable at the end of one line that forms a foot with the first syllable of the next line":[ "\u2014 used of a type of verse in sprung rhythm" ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "probably from rove entry 6 + over":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101419", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "rover":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a player who is not assigned to a specific position on a team and who plays wherever needed":[], ": a random or long-distance mark in archery":[ "\u2014 usually used in plural" ], ": a vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body (such as the moon or Mars)":[], ": pirate":[], ": wanderer , roamer":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1525, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Middle Dutch, from roven to rob; akin to Old English r\u0113afian to reave \u2014 more at reave":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8r\u014d-v\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083713", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "rover bellflower":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a coarse European perennial herb ( Campanula rapunculoides ) widely naturalized especially in eastern North America and having racemes of nodding flowers with campanulate corollas":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "rover entry 2":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114908", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "rovescio":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a rovescio":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "by shortening":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222559", "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "roving":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a slightly twisted roll or strand of usually textile fibers":[], ": capable of being shifted from place to place : mobile":[], ": inclined to ramble or stray":[ "a roving fancy" ], ": not restricted as to location or area of concern":[] }, "examples":[ "Adjective", "a roving substitute teacher who works in a different district every day", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "State police say troopers will conduct extra roving DUI patrols from Thursday evening through Monday evening. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 26 May 2022", "In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, many roving reporters thrust their mikes into the faces of people. \u2014 Mitali Mukherjee, Quartz , 19 May 2022", "Jerry Boylan failed to have a roving night watch of the boat, did not conduct sufficient fire drills and did not conduct sufficient training of the crewmembers. \u2014 Lauren Hern\u00e1ndez, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Sep. 2021", "Weinstein, who was Team USA\u2019s bench coach in the Tokyo Olympics and is a roving instructor with the Colorado Rockies, sees Crawford as a top-five pick based solely on his pitching. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 25 Aug. 2021", "In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn\u2019t, and a woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction, music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2021", "Garver had Ray Smith and Jeff Reed, two former big-league catchers, for his first 28 pro games with the rookie team in Elizabethton, Tenn., but after that there was not a roving instructor as a catching coordinator in the minors. \u2014 Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune , 24 Mar. 2021", "With unconventional designs, nomadic architecture incorporates the benefits of urban dwellings with that of a roving lifestyle. \u2014 Jim Dobson, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2021", "Tensions grew as the main march moved from Freedom Plaza to outside the U.S. Supreme Court, and as the final speeches ended, clashes turned into roving street fights that left police struggling to keep up. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Nov. 2020", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Carvetise and Wrapify are the two main players in the market for such roving billboards. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 10 June 2022", "Yet the lunar rover\u2014or, in NASA parlance, the lunar roving vehicle, or LRV\u2014upended all expectations of what was possible in a brief visit to another world. \u2014 Outside Online , 23 June 2021", "This was the first panel at the seventh edition of Prada Mode, the Italian house\u2019s roving and invite-only pop-up social and arts club. \u2014 Alessandra Codinha, Vogue , 18 Feb. 2022", "As a skilled winemaker learns more and more about his or her vineyards through relentless roving , adjusting and tasting, certain sites begin to stand out. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 17 Jan. 2022", "The city became home to a nonalcoholic festival Sundown this fall, created by the same couple who started a roving , booze-free rave Secret Dance Addiction. \u2014 Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine , 28 Dec. 2021", "Some hyolith species propped themselves up on the seafloor using a pair of long spines and deployed a roving set of tentacles between their two shells\u2014the lower of which tapered off into a cone\u2014to gather planktonic prey. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Dec. 2021", "Launched on July 26, 1971, Apollo 15 became the first Apollo mission to carry a lunar roving vehicle (LRV) to the lunar surface. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 22 July 2021", "Participants in this class will learn to use a special barbed needle to turn the softest of materials, wool roving , into portraits of their pets. \u2014 courant.com , 21 May 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective", "1785, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "rove entry 1":"Adjective", "rove entry 4":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8r\u014d-vi\u014b" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "ambulant", "ambulatory", "errant", "fugitive", "gallivanting", "galavanting", "itinerant", "nomad", "nomadic", "perambulatory", "peregrine", "peripatetic", "ranging", "roaming", "vagabond", "vagrant", "wandering", "wayfaring" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090946", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "roving eye":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a tendency to look at and have sexual thoughts about other people while already in a romantic relationship":[ "His wife wasn't willing to tolerate his roving eye ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231610", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "roving reel":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a device for measuring the length of textile rovings":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "roving entry 3":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030556", "type":[ "noun" ] } }