What's the difference between rootless and wanderer?
Rootless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of roots.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Cable said he had accidentally compared her to the wrong murderous dictator: “I got my literary reference wrong – I think it was Stalin who talked about ‘rootless cosmopolitans’.
(2) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more As a backbench all-party committee of MPs warned that housing policy was “a mess”, the Resolution Foundation said those aged 18 to 34 faced the prospect of being permanent renters and that home ownership was increasingly becoming the preserve of the well-off and the elderly.
(3) While waiting families often live a rootless existence, subject to frequent moves between different properties and locations, cut off from vital support networks.
(4) One of the rough ways that social geographers have of classifying lives led in Britain is to ask how "rooted" or "rootless" they are.
(5) It has been cast as representative of the rootlessness of New Labour and, by architecture critic Owen Hatherley , as the doomed apotheosis of the fossil-fuel society.
(6) It promotes the ideal worker as a rootless person with no attachment to place or community, and with limited political rights; whose citizenship resides in their ability to work alone.
(7) It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless.
(8) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more The NUT survey found that most teachers live within 45 minutes of work, suggesting that if forced to move out they would look for jobs close to home rather than commuting in.
(9) Hypotheses of tooth emergence are viewed in the light of these rootless eruptions.
(10) Salinger's great, obsessive theme was the moral rootlessness of contemporary American materialism and its corrosive effect upon precocious, highly sensitive children and adolescents whose religious yearnings were both esoteric (eastern, mystic) and sentimental (narcissistic, naively self-regarding).
(11) Eruption of rootless mandibular premolars and other dental defects in a girl suffering from congenital kidney disease are described.
(12) The world of listless, rootless youth, casual acts of sex and random acts of violence in south London parks were very much part of the landscape as I reached my 20th birthday in 1986.
(13) Is the Tory party becoming the vehicle for a rootless, amoral global financial community with little loyalty to country – or even to great business?
(14) Clinical and histologic examination revealed that the tooth was rootless, incompletely mineralized, and acutely inflamed.
(15) They have no country of their own, so we regard them as rootless.
(16) Global news channels have their own parallel world of timeless, rootless programmes that work as well at 2am in an airport as at 2pm in a jet-lagged hotel suite.
(17) It is suggested that the flagellar rootless may function in controlling the patterning and the direction of cytoplasmic microtubule assembly.
(18) Both companies are already the strangely rootless products of previous mergers.
(19) Tarantino’s anti-heroes were ideal models for upcoming mafiosi because they were drawn from the same timeless, rootless renegades.
(20) Here is its point: the creation of the bored, cynical, rootless Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.
Wanderer
Definition:
(n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.