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• rove — [ rouv ] verb intransitive or transitive MAINLY LITERARY 1. ) to move around an area without a definite direction or purpose: ROAM 2. ) if your eyes rove around a place, you look all around it …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• rove — UK [rəʊv] / US [roʊv] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms rove : present tense I/you/we/they rove he/she/it roves present participle roving past tense roved past participle roved mainly literary 1) to move around an area without a definite… …   English dictionary

• Rove (TV series) — Rove The Rove logo used from 2007 til 2009 Format Talk show / Comedy Developed by Roving Enterprises Presented by Rove McManus …   Wikipedia

• Rove beetle — Rove beetles Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• rove — [rəuv US rouv] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Perhaps from rave to wander (14 19 centuries), probably from a Scandinavian language] 1.) [I and T] written to travel from one place to another = ↑roam ▪ a salesman roving the country 2.) roving reporter …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• rove — rove1 [rōv] vi. roved, roving [ME roven, orig. an archery term as vt. < ?] 1. to wander about; go from place to place, esp. over an extensive area, with no particular course or destination; roam 2. to look around: said of the eyes vt. to… …   English World dictionary

• rove — ► VERB 1) travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander. 2) (of eyes) look around in all directions. ORIGIN originally an archery term in the sense «shoot at a casual mark of undetermined range»: perhaps from dialect rave «to stray» …   English terms dictionary

• rove beetle — any of numerous beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having a slender, elongated body and very short front wings, and capable of running swiftly. Also called staphylinid. [1765 75] * * * ▪ insect       any member of the widely distributed insect… …   Universalium

• rove — [[t]ro͟ʊv[/t]] roves, roving, roved 1) VERB If someone roves about an area or roves an area, they wander around it. [LITERARY] [V prep/adv] ...roving about the town in the dead of night and seeing something peculiar. [V n] ...organised anti… …   English dictionary

• rove — verb (I) 1 to travel from one place to another: roving reporter (=someone who works for a newspaper or television company, and moves from place to place) 2 if someone s eyes rove, they look continuously from one part of something to another (+… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• rove — Synonyms and related words: Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bat around, bum, bumming, count ties, discursion, divagate, divagation, drift, drifting, err, errantry, excurse, flit, flitting, gad, gad about, gadding, gallivant, go about, go… …   Moby Thesaurus