(v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
(v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
(v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many turned up in their bright robes and burqas, and some incredibly emotional scenes ensued.
(2) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
(3) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) 5.13am BST Pacquiao enters He's heading in, wearing a white robe with blue trim, and looking like he does...relaxed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters in KKK robes disrupt confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions Sessions defended his brand of law-and-order conservatism, pledging to reverse a recent spike in violent crime in some US cities and to tackle a heroin addiction epidemic that has afflicted several regions.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence’s white silk robes, which were presented to him after the capture of Aqaba.
(8) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Bathrobe One of these characters is in the bath, the other is wearing some kind of robe.
(9) A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing Hpa-An was sleepy but charming and lay on the Thanlyin river, my route to Mawlamyine.
(10) "Chisora climbed down from the top table," he said, "removed his robe and then walked towards me, entourage in tow, in an aggressive manner.
(11) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
(12) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
(13) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
(14) As kick-off at the Al-Ahli stadium approaches, a rust-coloured moon rises in the sky and a few rich Qataris in immaculate robes settle into their air-conditioned executive boxes.
(15) Then he reached deep into his robes, beamed a huge smile and offered me a sweet.
(16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(17) A website for the group includes an image of Ancona in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross.
(18) López, who wears a bulletproof vest under his robes at mass, said that compared to the cartel and the government, the vigilantes stood out as a "lesser evil", which was also gathering support among wealthy locals who were secretly channelling funds their way.
(19) So the eyes and ears of the eurozone will be on the eight red-robed judges of Germany's highest court this week when they deliver a long-awaited verdict over whether a financial rescue fund considered crucial to the future of the euro gets the green light.
(20) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.
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.