What's the difference between love and rove?

Love


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
  • (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  • (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  • (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
  • (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  • (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
  • (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  • (n.) A thin silk stuff.
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
  • (n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
  • (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
  • (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.

Rove


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
  • (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  • (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  • (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
  • (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  • (v. t.) To wander over or through.
  • (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During stereotactic surgery, electrical impedance was measured by means of a roving electrode technique with a sine wave current of 10 kc.
  • (2) Following spontaneous horizontal roving eye movement, both eyes deviated downward slowly from midposition, taking 1 to 2 seconds to reach the nadir.
  • (3) As his career has progressed, he has homed in ever closer on his immediate landscape, while roving further across history, literature and human consciousness – usually right out to the edges.
  • (4) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
  • (5) When roving forward City looked a team coasting in low gear who might punish the visitors at will.
  • (6) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
  • (7) Rove is one of the most infamous faces of the GOP so having him speculate publicly about possible brain damage left the crowd “stunned”, reported the New York Post , with Clinton’s team immediately dismissing it and a former White House communications director who worked with Rove calling his comments “off the wall”.
  • (8) Both the prominent conservative strategist Karl Rove and the oil tycoons the Koch brothers have been putting together their own voter databases, but there is understood to be no communication between the lists, thus limiting their potency.
  • (9) The phenomenon of roving eye movement is discussed with regard to the supranuclear structures regulating binocular eye movements.
  • (10) You never ask a question and give your opponent a chance to offer an answer," Rove said.
  • (11) The model is compared to some published data on loudness matching and discrimination and to some new data of our own on the variability of loudness comparisons obtained in a two-interval, roving-level, loudness-discrimination experiment.
  • (12) This high degree of genetic variability comes from the traditional local population that is in the process of being upgraded to standardized breeds such as Saanen, Rove and, mainly, Chamois Alpine (95 percent of upgraded flocks).
  • (13) Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred.
  • (14) Like many of the subjects of Louis Theroux's Twilight of the Porn Stars ( Sun, 10pm, BBC2 ), Michaels first met the roving documentarian 15 years ago, when he was shooting the first series of Weird Weekends.
  • (15) His strategist Steve Bannon, the Riefenstahl -inspired new Karl Rove, has boasted of being the man behind the plan.
  • (16) Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove).
  • (17) Adelson and his wife provided $10m of that last-minute total as well as $23m to American Crossroads, another pro-Romney Super Pac headed by veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove.
  • (18) The frequency discrimination threshold was measured at 15-, 35-, and 55-dB sensation level (SL), under conditions of (1) constant intensity, (2) roving intensity (plus and minus 6-dB burst-to-burst variation in intensity), (3) upward frequency change, and (4) downward frequency change.
  • (19) • Karl Rove's American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have decided to open the vaults for the biggest ad buy yet of this cycle.
  • (20) He had been on the receiving end of a four-year assault from the American right – the alternative universe embodied by Fox News, which tore itself apart on air as pundit Karl Rove refused to accept the cold, hard facts set out by Fox's own number-crunchers – which sought to "other" the US president, to paint him as Barack Hussein Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Muslim bent on destroying America.