different between rove vs slink

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

     And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]

2. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.

3. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
4. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Derived terms

• rover
• roved
• roving

Related terms

• reeve

Translations

Noun

rove (plural roves)

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
3. The act of wandering; a ramble.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

rove

1. simple past tense of rive
2. simple past tense of reeve

Anagrams

• -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roven

Anagrams

• over, Voer, voer

Finnish

Noun

rove

1. Small container made of birch bark.

Declension

Synonyms

• tuokkonen

Anagrams

• vero

English

Etymology

From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkan? (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”). Cognate with West Frisian slinke, Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”), Low German slinken, Swedish slinka (“to glide”). Compare also German schleichen (“to slink”). More at sleek.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

slink (third-person singular simple present slinks, present participle slinking, simple past and past participle slunk or slinked or slank)

1. (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 2,^[1]

     As we do turn our backs

     From our companion thrown into his grave,

     So his familiars to his buried fortunes

     Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,

     Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self,

     A dedicated beggar to the air,

     With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty,

     Walks, like contempt, alone.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9^[2]

     Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.

   a cow that slinks her calf

Translations

Noun

slink (countable and uncountable, plural slinks)

1. (countable) A furtive sneaking motion.
   • 1998, Beppie Noyes, Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat (page 30)

     His slink became a stride; he held his tail high; his eyes began to look more curious than scared. But he was still cautious.

2. The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
3. The meat of such a prematurely born animal.
4. (obsolete) A bastard child, one born out of wedlock.
5. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

Translations

Adjective

slink (comparative more slink, superlative most slink)

1. (Scotland) thin; lean

Anagrams

• kilns, links

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

slink

1. first-person singular present indicative of slinken
2. imperative of slinken

Anagrams

• links

Swedish

Verb

slink

1. imperative of slinka.