rover

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹəʊvə/    美 /ˈɹoʊvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination; a nomad, a roamer, a wanderer.
    — But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.
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  2. One who forms cotton, wool, or other fibres into rovings (“long, narrow bundles of fibres”), specifically using a roving frame in a mill. historical
    — A Manufacture of Cotton is lately eſtabliſhed in this City, and is arrived at a very great Perfection; and I could not but be greatly pleaſed, vvhen I vvas there laſt, to ſee a very handſome Proceſſion made on this Occaſion, viz. on May-day 1740, at vvhich Time Mr. Clough, the Maſter of the Manufactory, together vvith the ſeveral Artificers concern'd therein, marched thro' the City in the follovving manner, preceded by the City Muſick; viz. There vvere Three Stages borne, each by Six Porters: On the firſt Stage vvere the Teazer, Carder, Rover, Spinner, and Reeler of the Cotton-vvool.
  3. A pirate.
    — [T]he king ſent to the ſea ſixe good ſhippes, well manned and vitayled for the warre: […] for ſaffegarde of the Merchauntes, and other the kinges ſubiectes, that were greuouſly ſpoyled and robbed on the ſea, by Frenchmen, Scottes and other rouers.
  4. A restless, unsteady person who does not settle down; specifically (historical), a flirtatious, unfaithful man; a rake. broadly,dated
    — Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
  5. A machine used to make rovings, especially a roving frame. historical
    — The cotton being spread upon one of the cards, it was repeatedly combed with another till all the fibres were laid straight, when it was stripped off the card in a fleecy roll ready for the rover.
  6. A pirate ship.
    — Our Ship making her Courſe tovvards the Canary Iſlands, or rather betvveen those Iſlands and the African Shore, vvas ſurpriſed in the Grey of the Morning by a Turkiſh Rover of Sallee, vvho gave Chaſe to us vvith all the Sail ſhe could make.
  7. A plunderer, a raider, a robber. obsolete
    — In his daies came vp Nabuchodonoſor [Nebuchadnezzar II] the king of Babylon, and Ioakim vvas made his ſeruant three yeares: and he rebelled agaynſt him againe. And our Lord ſent in vpon him the rouers of the Chaldees, and the rouers of Syria, and the rouers of Moab, & the rouers of the children of Ammon: and he ſent them into Iuda, to deſtroy it, according to the vvord of our Lord, vvhich he had ſpoken by his ſeruantes the prophetes.
  8. Also rover ticket: a person who has a ticket for an event, performance, etc., but no assigned seat, and so has to find a place to sit or stand. broadly,historical
  9. A small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies. broadly
    — September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY" NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position
  10. A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a combination of those of a cornerback, linebacker, and safety; also, a player playing this position. broadly
    — I went to Coach Beamer and, because we had a lot of outside linebackers, ask him if I could play rover.
  11. Chiefly in the plural in the form to shoot at rovers: a target randomly selected by an archer, usually for practice; also, a fixed target for practising long-distance shooting. broadly,historical
    — "By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or rovers, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails.
  12. A type of heavy arrow used for long-distance shooting. broadly,obsolete
    — All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.
  13. A position that is one of three of a team's followers making up a ruck, who follow the ball around the ground; also, a player playing this position, who is generally fast and skilful at receiving the ball, and formerly of shorter stature. broadly
  14. In full rover ball: a ball which has passed through all the hoops and would peg out if it hit the stake but is continued in play to help fellow players or obstruct opposing players; also, the player of such a ball. broadly
  15. Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“an early type of safety bicycle with a lower riding position than previous models”). alt-of,broadly,historical
  16. A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) or remotely operated vehicle (ROV). broadly
  17. Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“Short for Land Rover (“a type of road vehicle capable of being driven off-road”)”). alt-of,broadly
  18. The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball. broadly
  19. A forward whose responsibility was to feed the scrum and protect the scrum-half; the position was abandoned after a 1931 rule change. broadly,historical
  20. Alternative letter-case form of Rover (“Short for Rover Scout (“a member of a Scouting organization for young men too old to be Boy Scouts”)”). UK,alt-of,broadly
  21. Especially in rover ticket: a type of pass, ticket, etc., that allows the holder unlimited travel on certain types of public transport for specified periods. UK,attributive,broadly
  22. In full rover patrol: an airborne reconnaissance patrol. UK,broadly,historical

词形变化

rovers plural rovers plural rovers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Land Rover lunar rover Mars rover rover ball rover bellflower Rover Scout rover ticket ruck rover Sallee rover salt-rover sea rover rovery

词源

词源 1
From rove (“to roam, wander; (archery) to shoot an arrow randomly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is derived from Late Middle English *roven, rove (“to wander”); further etymology uncertain, possibly an English Midlands variant of Northern England raven, rave (“to rove, stray, wander”), possibly from Old Norse ráfa (“to roam, wander”) (although rove and rave are only attested much later), possibly from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to cause to weave; to entangle, wrap”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
词源 2
From Late Middle English rover, rovere (“pirate”), borrowed from Middle Dutch rôver, rôvere (from rôven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), or Middle Low German rōver (“plunderer, robber; pirate, reaver”) (from rōven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raubōną (“to plunder, rob, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break, tear (up)”). Doublet of reaver.
cognates
* Danish røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”)
* German Räuber
* Norwegian røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”)
词源 3
From rove (“to card (wool or other fibres)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is probably a variant of row (“(Scotland, obsolete, rare) to make (cotton, wool, etc.) into rovings”), probably from row (“(Ireland, Scotland, archaic) rove or roving of cotton, wool, etc.”), probably a variant of roll (“thing which is rolled up”), ultimately from Latin rota (“wheel”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll; to run”).
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