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roving
1[roh-ving]
adjective
roaming or wandering.
not assigned or restricted to any particular location, area, topic, etc..
a roving editor.
not assigned to any particular diplomatic post but having a special mission.
a roving ambassador.
roving
2[roh-ving]
noun
a soft strand of fiber that has been twisted, attenuated, and freed of foreign matter preparatory to its conversion into yarn.
the final phase of carding, in which this is done.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- rovingly adverb
- rovingness noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Example Sentences
Some teachers are downright skeptical of the roving concept.
In the crowd, Sian was singing along and told a roving BBC Newsbeat reporter that she had seen the band a few years before with the same people she was with on Sunday.
The camera moves, shooting her from this angle and that, and occasionally roving over various covers of Christie’s books.
A roving, sumptuous narrative entrenched in the labyrinthine relationships of a small southern Italian town, “My Brilliant Friend†follows Lila and Elena, schoolgirls growing up in postwar Naples.
Musk, whose band of roving nerd-assassins is conducting something like a large-scale Stalinist show trial of the entire federal bureaucracy, called Navarro a “moron†who was “dumber than a sack of bricks.â€
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