roamingn.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈroʊmɪŋ/

Forms: see roam v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roam v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < roam v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of roam v.; wandering or moving aimlessly; (also) an instance of this, a wandering journey. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering

wandering1362

roamingc1390

roving?1520

error1594

rangling1594

wanderment1597

rambling1622

rolling1624

vagancy1641

roverya1653

pervagation1656

oberration1658

vagrancya1677

stravaiging1825

scamander1873

outwandering1880

c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine l. 806 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 75 (MED) Hit ful so sodeynliche As þe [read he] passed on feld bi On his romyng.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Through this wyde roaming thee Troians Italy mishing Ful manye yeers wandred.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vii. i. 282 All Prophecies are not from the mere ravings & roamings of a buisie Phansie.

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 55 I shall consider, First, What Truth there is in the Roaming of Spirits in the Night.

1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 369/1 Roaming is most delightful.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 82 This may seem like an aimless roaming through one department of our vocabulary.

1937 Times 18 Nov. 7/1 His roaming is overdone.

1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic ii. 38 In his roamings, he jammed in a Nashville studio..and auditioned unsuccessfully for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 July m3 [He] is beginning to donate the artifacts of his restless roaming.

2. Telecommunications. The use of a mobile phone on a network other than the one subscribed to, esp. as a result of travelling between cells or outside the area covered by one's usual network; the facility to use a mobile phone in this way. Cf. cell n.¹ 21, roam v. 5.

ΚΠ

1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 20 June Roaming allows a cellular customer to obtain service outside of his home calling area.

2000 Wavelength Jan. 60 With the aid of..a mobile phone with international roaming, we crossed borders, caught ferries, flew south, and waited for the swell to arrive.

2003 Holiday Which? Summer 132/1 Before leaving the UK, you must contact your operator to set up your phone for roaming, if you want it to work at all.

Compounds

C1. General attributive with sense ‘of or relating to roaming, characterized by roaming’, as roaming agreement, roaming charge, roaming ground, roaming life, roaming place, roaming tour, etc.

ΚΠ

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 206 It were to large a roming place, to runne ouer the port that the churchmen haue kept.

1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Gen. iv. 15) 8/1 I..will not suffer thy solitary, and roming life, to give any one occasion to hurt thee.

1757 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. (ed. 6) 197 Partition off their [sc. ducks'] Nests,..and always feed them there; it will make them love Home, being of a roaming Nature.

1861 W. White Month in Yorks. (ed. 4) 272 Any one who could be content with homely head-quarters at Muker or Thwaite might enjoy a roaming holiday for a week or two.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 48/2 The south or steppe portion of Mesopotamia was from early times the roaming-ground of Arabic tribes.

1905 Nonconformist Musical Jrnl. Sept. 132 I am taking a roaming tour in the Highlands of Scotland.

1939 S. L. Cross (title of song) My roaming days are over.

1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 20 June The ‘roaming’ agreement is believed to be the first of its kind in the cellular industry to be entered into by a wireline and non-wireline company.

1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. iv. 2 a/1 Subscribers can now use their cellular phones outside of a typical coverage area, thanks to ‘roaming agreements’ in which competing cellular carriers have agreed to accept and broadcast calls made from subscribers who don't belong to their networks.

1995 What Mobile & Cellphone Mag. Feb. 4/2 This rate includes..roaming charges, which can cost around $3 a day in many parts of the US.

2008 Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Features section) 27 Most pheasants tend to have a roaming existence.

C2.

† roaming stead n. Obsolete rare a walkway.

ΚΠ

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 49 Peribolus, romyng stede, vel murus exterior.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

roamingadj.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈroʊmɪŋ/

Forms: see roam v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roam v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < roam v. + -ing suffix².

That roams or wanders.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering

wanderingc1000

erringa1340

waggeringa1382

vagant1382

vagabond1426

erroneousa1464

fugitive1481

wavering1487

vagrantc1522

gadding1545

roaming1566

roving1576

straggling1589

rambling?1609

wagand1614

wheelinga1616

gadling1616

vagring1619

erratical1620

vaguing1627

erratic1656

planetical1656

waif1724

vagrarious1795

stravaiging1825

vagarious1882

pirooting1958

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 11 ^v From whence the roaming Scithyan sea Hys channell furthe doth fynde.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvi. 170 Dominion ouer the whole band of that roaming and spoyling aduersarie.

1657 M. Nedham Great Accuser cast Down 102 The grandure of their power and authority would not have been so Hyper-Archiepiscopal, so Super-Metropolitan and Roming as now it is.

1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 289 A Ram will not fat to that Profit as a Wether will, because he is a roaming Beast.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 62 The roaming herds of that species of animal.

1891 F. J. Weber Pop. Hist. Music 194 The various peoples..had open houses and attentive ears for every roaming minstrel.

1922 J. H. Morrison Missionary Heroes Afr. ii. 33 Some vague idea that missionary work would tend to consolidate the roaming tribes and freebooters.

1988 M. Muller in Deceptions (1991) 40 All of the settlers..took great precautions against the roaming wolf packs.

2007 Dædalus Spring 116 Murals depicting the history of Minnesota, with bold trappers,..roaming animals, the forest, and the emerging towns.

Derivatives

ˈroamingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner

wilsomelyc1420

erroneously1528

vagrantly1547

gaddingly1552

wanderingly1552

roamingly1621

rovingly1664

excursively1791

ramblingly1855

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 211 With him I..came into this country, where euer since I haue romingly endured, neuer in any one place setled.

1860 T. Delf Detective's Note-bk. 14 He walked roamingly about the garden.

1998 J. Barnes England, England 205 She lay there thinking about her life. She did this..roamingly, rebukingly, tenderly, revisingly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roaming
释义	roamingn. Brit. /ˈrəʊmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊmɪŋ/ Forms: see roam v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roam v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < roam v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of roam v.; wandering or moving aimlessly; (also) an instance of this, a wandering journey. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering wandering1362 roamingc1390 roving?1520 error1594 rangling1594 wanderment1597 rambling1622 rolling1624 vagancy1641 roverya1653 pervagation1656 oberration1658 vagrancya1677 stravaiging1825 scamander1873 outwandering1880 c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine l. 806 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 75 (MED) Hit ful so sodeynliche As þe [read he] passed on feld bi On his romyng. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Through this wyde roaming thee Troians Italy mishing Ful manye yeers wandred. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vii. i. 282 All Prophecies are not from the mere ravings & roamings of a buisie Phansie. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 55 I shall consider, First, What Truth there is in the Roaming of Spirits in the Night. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 369/1 Roaming is most delightful. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 82 This may seem like an aimless roaming through one department of our vocabulary. 1937 Times 18 Nov. 7/1 His roaming is overdone. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic ii. 38 In his roamings, he jammed in a Nashville studio..and auditioned unsuccessfully for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 July m3 [He] is beginning to donate the artifacts of his restless roaming. 2. Telecommunications. The use of a mobile phone on a network other than the one subscribed to, esp. as a result of travelling between cells or outside the area covered by one's usual network; the facility to use a mobile phone in this way. Cf. cell n.¹ 21, roam v. 5. ΚΠ 1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 20 June Roaming allows a cellular customer to obtain service outside of his home calling area. 2000 Wavelength Jan. 60 With the aid of..a mobile phone with international roaming, we crossed borders, caught ferries, flew south, and waited for the swell to arrive. 2003 Holiday Which? Summer 132/1 Before leaving the UK, you must contact your operator to set up your phone for roaming, if you want it to work at all. Compounds C1. General attributive with sense ‘of or relating to roaming, characterized by roaming’, as roaming agreement, roaming charge, roaming ground, roaming life, roaming place, roaming tour, etc. ΚΠ 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 206 It were to large a roming place, to runne ouer the port that the churchmen haue kept. 1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Gen. iv. 15) 8/1 I..will not suffer thy solitary, and roming life, to give any one occasion to hurt thee. 1757 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. (ed. 6) 197 Partition off their [sc. ducks'] Nests,..and always feed them there; it will make them love Home, being of a roaming Nature. 1861 W. White Month in Yorks. (ed. 4) 272 Any one who could be content with homely head-quarters at Muker or Thwaite might enjoy a roaming holiday for a week or two. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 48/2 The south or steppe portion of Mesopotamia was from early times the roaming-ground of Arabic tribes. 1905 Nonconformist Musical Jrnl. Sept. 132 I am taking a roaming tour in the Highlands of Scotland. 1939 S. L. Cross (title of song) My roaming days are over. 1984 PR Newswire (Nexis) 20 June The ‘roaming’ agreement is believed to be the first of its kind in the cellular industry to be entered into by a wireline and non-wireline company. 1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. iv. 2 a/1 Subscribers can now use their cellular phones outside of a typical coverage area, thanks to ‘roaming agreements’ in which competing cellular carriers have agreed to accept and broadcast calls made from subscribers who don't belong to their networks. 1995 What Mobile & Cellphone Mag. Feb. 4/2 This rate includes..roaming charges, which can cost around $3 a day in many parts of the US. 2008 Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Features section) 27 Most pheasants tend to have a roaming existence. C2. † roaming stead n. Obsolete rare a walkway. ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 49 Peribolus, romyng stede, vel murus exterior. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roamingadj. Brit. /ˈrəʊmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊmɪŋ/ Forms: see roam v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roam v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < roam v. + -ing suffix². That roams or wanders. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 11 ^v From whence the roaming Scithyan sea Hys channell furthe doth fynde. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvi. 170 Dominion ouer the whole band of that roaming and spoyling aduersarie. 1657 M. Nedham Great Accuser cast Down 102 The grandure of their power and authority would not have been so Hyper-Archiepiscopal, so Super-Metropolitan and Roming as now it is. 1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 289 A Ram will not fat to that Profit as a Wether will, because he is a roaming Beast. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 62 The roaming herds of that species of animal. 1891 F. J. Weber Pop. Hist. Music 194 The various peoples..had open houses and attentive ears for every roaming minstrel. 1922 J. H. Morrison Missionary Heroes Afr. ii. 33 Some vague idea that missionary work would tend to consolidate the roaming tribes and freebooters. 1988 M. Muller in Deceptions (1991) 40 All of the settlers..took great precautions against the roaming wolf packs. 2007 Dædalus Spring 116 Murals depicting the history of Minnesota, with bold trappers,..roaming animals, the forest, and the emerging towns. Derivatives ˈroamingly adv. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner wilsomelyc1420 erroneously1528 vagrantly1547 gaddingly1552 wanderingly1552 roamingly1621 rovingly1664 excursively1791 ramblingly1855 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 211 With him I..came into this country, where euer since I haue romingly endured, neuer in any one place setled. 1860 T. Delf Detective's Note-bk. 14 He walked roamingly about the garden. 1998 J. Barnes England, England 205 She lay there thinking about her life. She did this..roamingly, rebukingly, tenderly, revisingly. 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