What's the difference between roam and roil?

Roam


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
  • (v. t.) To range or wander over.
  • (n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (2) Or you can do it at the desk with your smartphone if you can remember the website address, don’t mind the data roaming charges, can remember your national insurance number and are impervious to the long queue developing behind you”.
  • (3) Groups of men with machetes have been roaming the ruins seeking supplies of food or water.
  • (4) From flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities , the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a hint of apology.
  • (5) You can regularly spot Darth Vaders , dogs dressed like Yoda and even the occasional stormtrooper roaming the halls of our data centers,” he wrote .
  • (6) executive director Richard Lloyd said: "Capping EU mobile roaming charges is welcome news for millions of travellers, especially those who have faced expensive charges for data roaming when their mobile hasn't even left their suitcase.
  • (7) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
  • (8) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
  • (9) If the UK were to remain a member of the European Economic Area, which includes all EU member states plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland, British consumers would continue to benefit from the abolition of roaming charges.
  • (10) Kroes is proposing that companies which phase out roaming from July 2014 will face lighter-touch regulation.
  • (11) "Under the deal, a 50p cap protects mobile users from accidentally running up unexpected bills if they forget to turn off their data roaming setting."
  • (12) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
  • (13) Yet, a survey of 108 families demonstrated that free-roaming poultry were often not thought of as a health risk for children.
  • (14) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (15) Spanish operators and others in southern Europe, for instance, benefit hugely from the roaming business among holiday-makers.
  • (16) Explorers brought camels to Australia to help them travel in the desert, and now an estimated 1 million roam wild across the country.
  • (17) She was charged even though the trader specifically told her that roaming charges would not apply in European countries.
  • (18) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
  • (19) Roaming table • Download before you go Make sure you download what you need before you leave home, including apps, books, films or music, plus city maps, guides, etc, says Ofcom, and check downloads are fully completed before you leave.
  • (20) Separatists have squatted in his office, masked gunmen roam the streets with impunity, and Russia – the giant, growling neighbour – threatens to invade.

Roil


Definition:

  • (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
  • (v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
  • (v. i.) To wander; to roam.
  • (v. i.) To romp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The self-described billionaire launched his campaign by referring to Mexicans as “rapists” and “killers”, the first in a series of controversial remarks that have roiled the GOP primary.
  • (2) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.
  • (3) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.
  • (4) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
  • (5) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (6) "Markets roiled" Bond traders continued to view Greek debt as hugely risky.
  • (7) Last month’s business sentiment was also weighed down by sharp declines in China’s stock market and a surprise currency devaluation that roiled markets worldwide and a devastating explosion in the busy port of Tianjin.
  • (8) The embarrassing event has the potential to torpedo the rest of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration and roil relations between the US and Mexico,” it said.
  • (9) The roiling is so surround sound it's hard to hear him.
  • (10) Following a month-long rout on Chinese stock markets, authorities devalued the yuan several times last week, roiling global equity markets and sparking fears of a currency war in which countries compete to boost exports by cutting the value of their currency.
  • (11) With the undocumented comprising as much as half of the uninsured population in Los Angeles, the issue has echoes of the roiling immigration debate.
  • (12) Leaders from Ferguson, Missouri , are to meet Department of Justice officials on Tuesday to discuss a federal review of their policing of the town, which was roiled by protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old last year.
  • (13) The new measures come as the White House tries to both ratchet up pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme and dissuade Israel from launching a unilateral strike on Iran, a move that could roil the Middle East and jolt the global economy.
  • (14) The decision not to indict Pantaleo touched off protests that roiled the streets in New York City and beyond and raised issues of police brutality, racial equity and the efficacy of grand juries.
  • (15) The historical memory of his presidential monuments has been consumed by fantasies of small-town life but it is a landscape of whitewashed buildings against the undulating emptiness, a country roiling with dreams.
  • (16) Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has taken advantage of the political turmoil roiling Yemen.
  • (17) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
  • (18) I’m also proud that [CPS] has moved in the opposite direction of some of the more regressive legislation that’s been passed.” Controversy is roiling over transgender students and their rights in the nations’ schools, with some schools and even whole states taking steps to force students to use facilities in conflict with their gender identity.
  • (19) Modi was ostracised for his actions, or inactions, during the Godhra riots , sectarian violence that roiled across his state for a month in 2002 in which 1,000 or more people, largely Muslim, died.
  • (20) Opinionated butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, hacks, artists and pornographers, impresarios and charlatans were now the protagonists in a roiling landscape of new ideas and opportunities.

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