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rogue  (rg)

n.

1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.

1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.

3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).

v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues

v.tr.

1. To defraud.

2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.intr.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

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rogue [rəʊg]

n

1. a dishonest or unprincipled person, esp a man; rascal; scoundrel

2. Often jocular a mischievous or wayward person, often a child; scamp

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different, unwanted variety

4.

a.  any inferior or defective specimen

b.  (as modifier) rogue heroin

5. Archaic a vagrant

6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology)

a.  an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life

b.  (as modifier) a rogue elephant

vb

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture)

a.  (tr) to rid (a field or crop) of plants that are inferior, diseased, or of an unwanted variety

b.  to identify and remove such plants

[of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin rogāre to beg]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

rogue - a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel knave, rapscallion, rascal, varlet, scalawag, scallywag scoundrel, villain - a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

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rogue

noun

1. scoundrel, crook (informal), villain, fraudster, sharper, fraud, cheat, devil, deceiver, charlatan, con man (informal), swindler, knave (archaic), ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scumbag (slang), blackguard, mountebank, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), skelm (S. African) He wasn't a rogue at all.

2. scamp, rascal, scally (Northwest English dialect), rapscallion a loveable rogue

Translations

rogue [rəʊg]

A. N

1. (= thief etc) → pícaro/a m/f, pillo/a m/f (hum) → granuja mf
you rogue! → ¡canalla!

2. (Zool) → animal m solitario, animal m apartado de la manada

B. ADJ

1. (Zool) [lion, male] → solitario, apartado de la manada
rogue elephant → elefante m solitario(y peligroso)

2. (Bio, Med) [gene] → defectuoso

3. (= maverick) [person] → que va por libre, inconformista; [company] → sin escrúpulos
rogue cop (= criminal) → policía mf corrupto/a

C. CPD rogue's gallery N → fichero m de delincuentes

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rogue [ˈrəʊg]

n

(= unscrupulous person) → fripouille f

(= mischievous person) → fripouille f

modif

[elephant] → solitaire

[gene] → aberrant(e)

(= maverick) [government] → voyou; [cop] → solitaire rogue state, rogue trader
rogue state n → État m hors-la-loi, État m voyou
rogue trader n → opérateur m sans scrupules

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rogue

n

(= scoundrel) → Gauner(in) m(f), → Schurke m; (= scamp) → Schlingel m; you little rogue! → du kleiner Gauner!

(Zool) → Einzelgänger(in) m(f)

adj

(Zool) a rogue male → ein Einzelgänger m; rogue elephant → Einzelgänger(elefant) m

(= maverick) person → einzelgängerisch; (= criminal) person, organization → verbrecherisch, skrupellos

(= abnormal, aberrant) → abnormal, entartet; (Biol, Med) cell → aberrant, entartet; satellite, rocket → fehlgeleitet; a rogue firework flew into the crowd → ein fehlgezündeter Feuerwerkskörper flog in die Menge

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rogue [rəʊg]

1. n → mascalzone m
rogues' gallery → foto fpl di pregiudicati

2. adj (elephant) → solitario/a

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rogue [rəʊg]

1. n → mascalzone m
rogues' gallery → foto fpl di pregiudicati

2. adj (elephant) → solitario/a

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rogue

n rogue [rəug]

1 a dishonest person I wouldn't buy a car from a rogue like him. skurk وَغْد мошеник darebák gavtyv der Schurke απατεώνας bribón, granuja petis آدم دغل؛ رند konna gredin נוֹכֵל आवारा hulja, nitkov gazember bajingan þrjótur farabutto, furfante ごろつき 사기꾼 niekšas nelietis; blēdis tidak tulus schurk kjeltring, svindler oszust vigarista pungaş жулик darebák falot vragolan bov, skurk คนไม่ซื่อ düzenbaz, dalavereci 無賴 пройдисвіт بے ایمان kẻ lừa đảo 流氓

2 a mischievous person, especially a child She's a little rogue sometimes. karnallie ماكِر، مُحْتال пакостник uličník, -ice gavtyveagtig der Schelm κατεργάρης pillo, pícaro kelm بی خانمان و آواره ilkimys polisson/-onne שוֹבָב अड़ियल जानवर घोड़ा, हाथी vragoljan, nestaško gazfickó anak nakal prakkari monello いたずらっ子 장난꾸러기 nenaudėlis palaidnis nakal schelm skøyer łobuz malandrete ştrengar проказник uličník, -ica porednež vragolan skälm, kanalje คนเกเร afacan, maskara 小淘氣 шибеник شرارتی thằng ranh con 小淘气