'Roving' definitions:
Definition of 'roving'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering]
noun
Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: wandering, roving, vagabondage]
Definition of 'Roving'
From: GCIDE
- Rove \Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave, Rob.]
- 1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- For who has power to walk has power to rove. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). [1913 Webster]
- Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Roving'
From: GCIDE
- Roving \Rov"ing\, n. The act of one who roves or wanders. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Roving'
From: GCIDE
- Roving \Rov"ing\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. [1913 Webster]
- Roving frame, Roving machine, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aimless,
- aimlessness,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- bumming,
- by the way,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- circuitous,
- circumforaneous,
- departing,
- desultoriness,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- digressiveness,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- discursiveness,
- divagation,
- divagatory,
- dizzy,
- drifting,
- eccentric,
- episodic,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- freakish,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- giddy,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hoboism,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- labyrinthine,
- landloping,
- loose,
- maundering,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- moody,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nomadism,
- out-of-the-way,
- perambulatory,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- peripatetic,
- planetary,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- restless,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- scatterbrained,
- serpentine,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- snaky,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- straggling,
- stray,
- straying,
- strolling,
- swerving,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- turning,
- twisting,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagabond,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- veering,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- Wanderjahr,
- wanderlust,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayfaring,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- winding,
- wishy-washy,
- zigzag