| wandering |
| 1. adj. Which wanders; travelling from place to place. | |
| 2. adj. (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions. | |
| a wandering kidney; a wandering liver | |
| 3. n. Travelling with no preset route; roaming. | |
| 4. n. Irregular turning of the eyes. | |
| 5. n. Aimless thought. | |
| 6. n. Straying from a desired path. | |
| 7. n. (chiefly in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium. | |
| 8. v. present participle of wander | |
| wander |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. | |
| to wander over the fields | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err. | |
| A writer wanders from his subject. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To commit adultery. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention. | |
| 6. n. The act or instance of wandering. | |
| To go for a wander | |
| roving |
| 1. adj. wandering freely. | |
| His roving eyes never focused on anything specific. | |
| 2. v. present participle of rove | |
| 3. n. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn. | |
| rove |
| 1. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at). | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | |
| 3. v. To roam or wander through. | |
| 4. v. To card wool or other fibres. | |
| 5. v. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. | |
| 6. v. To draw through an eye or aperture. | |
| 7. v. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. | |
| 8. v. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate. | |
| 9. n. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding. | |
| 10. n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving. | |
| 11. n. The act of wandering; a ramble. | |
| 12. v. simple past tense of rive | |
| 13. v. simple past tense of reeve | |
| around |
| 1. prep. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing. | |
| I planted a row of lillies around the statue. The jackals began to gather around someone or something. | |
| 2. prep. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point. | |
| We walked around the football field. She went around the track fifty times. | |
| 3. prep. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve. | |
| The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on. | |
| 4. prep. (of distance, time) Near; in the vicinity of. | |
| I left my keys somewhere around here. I left the house around 10 this morning. There isn't another house here for miles around. I'll see you around the neighbourhood, etc. | |
| 5. prep. At various places in. | |
| The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room. Those teenagers like to hang around the mall. | |
| 6. adj. (informal, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing. | |
| The record store on Main Street? Yes, it's still around. | |
| "How is old Bob? I heard that his health is failing." "Oh, he's still around. He's feeling better now.". | |
| 7. adv. Generally. | |
| 8. adv. From place to place. | |
| There are rumors going around that the company is bankrupt. | |
| She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card. | |
| Look around and see what you find. | |
| We moved the furniture around in the living room. | |
| 9. adv. From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement. | |
| The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned things around. | |
| He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed that around. | |
| The patient was unconscious but the doctor brought him around quickly. (see bring around, come around) | |
| I didn't think he would ever like the new design, but eventually we brought him around. (see bring around, come around) | |
| 10. adv. (with turn, spin etc.) Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction. | |
| Turn around at the end of this street. | |
| She spun around a few times. | |
| 11. adv. Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people | |
| Stop kidding around. I'm serious. | |
| I asked around, and no-one really liked it. | |
| Shopping around can get you a better deal. | |
| When are you going to stop whoring around, find a nice girl, and give us grandchildren? | |
