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roams

roams is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roam.

Meaning of roam

Verb

roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)

  1. (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
    • Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
      ⁠My blessing, like a line of light,
      ⁠Is on the waters day and night,
      And like a beacon guards thee home.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28
    Synonyms:
    err, shrithe, wander, mooch
  2. (transitive) To range or wander over.
    • Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.
  3. (intransitive) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
  4. (transitive) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
    • At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development

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Phrases with roams

Questions about roams

What is roams the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Roams is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roam.

Words near roams in the dictionary

  1. roaming eyes
  2. roaming master
  3. roaming masters
  4. roamingly
  5. roamings
  6. roams
  7. roan
  8. roan antelope
  9. roan antelopes
  10. roan duck
  11. roan ducks

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