Brandon Webb

The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.

American Soldier

Pete Hamill

As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.

American Journalist

Jonathan Zittrain

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

American Educator

Molly Ivins

Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated.

Elinor Lipman

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

American Novelist

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

British Poet

Maximillian Degenerez

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Portuguese Artist

Thomas Cole

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

American Artist

Kenneth Williams

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

British Actor

Implies constant movement without a planned path, focusing on the process rather than the destination.

Purposeful Wandering

Often used metaphorically to describe the exploration of ideas or possibilities.

Metaphorical Use

Emphasizes the act of looking over a broad area, usually in search of something.

Visual Exploration

Used when someone's visual attention is moving around rather than fixed on one spot.

Observational Context

Specific to nautical terminology; involves threading lines or cables in boating.

Technical Maritime

Refers to the physical action involving ropes and objects, requiring dexterity.

Practical Application

Connotes a spontaneous and adventurous trip, often outdoors or in nature.

Traveling Spirit

Noun form focuses on the experience of traveling without a fixed itinerary.

Unplanned Adventure

 Instead of being a roving geologist, it's a roving biologist. It's job is to look for past places on Mars that could have sustained life. We get to shoot a laser at the rock. Now why did we do that? Instead of having to go over and touch every rock and taste every rock... like we said before, we can actually fire the laser at the rock,

The Curious Life of a...

 Global governance is a term that's definitely way out of fashion right now, but could you make the case that throughout history, the history of humanity is that at every stage of technological power increase, people have reorganized and sort of centralized the power. So, for example, when a roving band of criminals

How civilization could...

 characterised by invasions from Norway and Ireland, and intense feuding between princes. But his descendants held on to power, building coastal fortresses, roving the seaways, throwing themselves into epic battles, and consolidating control over an impressive maritime kingdom.

The rise and fall of the...

 day this is a market and they're showing the people about poaching and talking to them about wildlife talking to them to them about cutting down trees and the problem with mudslides and watersheds and things like this it was great I'm people got very excited so this roving

Steve Winter: On the...

 In effect a pair of roving eyeglasses, a cutting-edge example of where miniaturization can lead if the operator is remote from the vehicle. It is convenient to carry, assemble, and launch by hand. Battery-powered, it is silent and rarely noticed.

Paul MacCready: Flying...

 in effect, a pair of roving eyeglasses. A cutting-edge example of where miniaturization can lead if the operator is remote from the vehicle. It is convenient to carry, assemble and launch by hand. Battery-powered, it is silent and rarely noticed.

Paul MacCready: Nature...

 level where the majority of our people are the everyday we had a vision to transform the everyday into a roving University a system where you kids don't have to go to live their village in order to go to the city to get an

Training Critical...

 Our higher resolution images show deltas and river valleys and gulleys that were there in the past. And in fact, Curiosity -- which has been roving on the surface now for about three years --

3 moons and a planet...

 Perseverance has been in the making for a very long time. And it's a roving scientific suite of instruments. It's a moving laboratory. And it's absolutely incredible the things it can do.

Robots Hunting for Life...

 will spend two years roving the Mars surface investigating whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for life

Rove

To move around without a specific destination or purpose.

To look or gaze around.

In a maritime context, to pass a rope through something.

Usage tips

A journey without a pre-determined route.

Purposeful Wandering

Metaphorical Use

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