rovingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹoʊvɪŋ/

形容詞

roving (comparative more roving, superlative most roving)

1. Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 139:

     The Northern Territory was dear to us both, and the fever for a roving life had not yet worn off, but some time elapsed before we could quite make up our minds whether to try our fortunes in Port Darwin again or not.

2. Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.

   His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.

   • 1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books:

     It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:

     There was a tall, green-eyed young woman with steeply slanting Central European cheekbones who particularly caught his sexually abstinent but still roving eye.

同意語

• wandering

派生語

語源 2

From rove (“sliver of wool or cotton”), late 17th century, possibly from obsolete 中期英語 rove(n) (“to draw out, pull off”), itself a dialectal variant of rive (“to tear, split”).

名詞

roving (countable and uncountable, plural rovings)

1. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting.
   • 1847, editorial staff, “Improvement in Roving Cans”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:

     Mr. J. W. Strange, of Taunton, Mass., has invented an improved method of laying roving in cans.

2. The process of giving the first twist to yarn.

語源 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

roving

1. present participle and gerund of rove

アナグラム

• voring