What's the difference between nomadic and rovingness?

Nomadic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are we really any closer today in our understanding and appreciation of why the nomadic human made such a choice for their very existence during the transition to a more civilized society?
  • (2) Male risk factors, primarily associated with herding activities, included sleeping outside during seasonal migrations (also a risk factor for nomadic women), bite by a tick (adult male Hyalomma truncatum), tick bite during the cool dry season, and contact with sick animals.
  • (3) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
  • (4) Nomads are a reservoir of susceptible individuals who require immunization strategies adapted to their particular life-styles.
  • (5) Persuading nomadic communities and local farmers of the merits of conservation has, he says, taken time.
  • (6) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
  • (7) An exhibition of Japanese outsider art – all of it made in mental health institutions and daycare centres – continues throughout June at the Wellcome Institute in London and the nomadic Museum of Everything , created in 2009, continues its wanderings.
  • (8) Many individuals from nomadic communities complained of persistent pain in the lower limbs, which was often associated with radiologic evidence of osteoperiostitis of the long bones.
  • (9) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
  • (10) He suffers from diabetes, a condition not helped by his nomadic lifestyle and manic disposition.
  • (11) The whole family has taken time to acclimatise to new surroundings, but such adjustments accompany the nomadic life of a football coach.
  • (12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
  • (13) The Enterprise encounters NOMAD, a small space probe of incredible destructive power.
  • (14) In both nomads and settled residents known to have fully sensitive strains of tubercle bacilli pretreatment the 6-month regimen was highly effective with no failures during chemotherapy and only 3% relapses after stopping chemotherapy in 126 patients compared with a combined failure rate during chemotherapy and relapse rate of 21% in the 152 patients receiving the 12-month regimen (P less than 0.001).
  • (15) The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions.
  • (16) Eighteen (22.0%) of 82 cows kept under semi-intensive and 23(26.4%) of 87 cows kept under Fulani nomadic systems were shedding C. burnetii.
  • (17) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
  • (18) The Ethiopian authorities claim the PBS programme addresses the challenges of poverty through cost-effective service delivery to scattered and nomadic populations.
  • (19) Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
  • (20) Nomads have developed special cultural and social patterns with a system of collective ownership in the clan or tribe.

Rovingness


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of roving.

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