rogue
(rōg)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: 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.
To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v.intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
[Origin unknown.]
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rogue
(rəʊɡ)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. (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. (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
(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
[C16: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin rogāre to beg]
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rogue
(roʊg)n., v. rogued, ro•guing. n.
1. a dishonest person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp.
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal.
5. a usu. inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.
v.i. 6. to live or act as a rogue.
v.t. 7. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
8. to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field.
[1555–65; earlier also roge, roag, perhaps akin to rogation or Latin rogāre to ask]
syn: See knave.
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rogue
Past participle: rogued
Gerund: roguing
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  rogue - a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel |
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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
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Translations
ماكِر، مُحْتالوَغْد
darebák-iceuličník
gavtyvgavtyveagtig
gazfickó
òrjóturprakkari
nenaudėlisniekšas
blēdisnelietispalaidnis
rogue
[rəʊg]A. N
B. ADJ
1. (Zool) [lion, male] → solitario, apartado de la manada
rogue elephant → elefante m solitario (y peligroso)
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
rogue cop (= criminal) → policía mf corrupto/a
C. CPD rogue's gallery N → fichero m de delincuentes
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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 traderrogue state n → État m hors-la-loi, État m voyourogue trader n → opérateur m sans scrupules
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
rogue
n
(= scoundrel) → Gauner(in) m(f), → Schurke m; (= scamp) → Schlingel m; you little rogue! → du kleiner Gauner!
(Zool) → Einzelgänger(in) m(f)
adj
(= 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]2. adj (elephant) → solitario/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
rogue
(rəug) noun1. a dishonest person. I wouldn't buy a car from a rogue like him.
2. a mischievous person, especially a child. She's a little rogue sometimes.
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