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Roget

Roget proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Roget

  1. A surname.

Verb

Roget (third-person singular simple present Rogets, present participle Rogeting, simple past and past participle Rogeted)

  1. (nonstandard) To use a thesaurus; to look for synonyms; to suggest synonyms.
    • In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion, page 6
    • ... the deep waters of English, including 29 pages out-Rogeting Roget with synonyms for "drunk".1983, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Punch - Volume 285, page 17
  2. (nonstandard) To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.
    • Mr Sadler added that he had “seen quite a bit” of “Roget-ing”, which he described as “disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms, one word at a time with no attempt to understand either the source or target text”.2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education
    • Usually it's not, as it's only key words that are Rogeted, so the rest of the sentence gets flagged.2015 February 7, Dr Pete Etchells, “Plagiarism: Copy, Paste, Thesaurus? [comment]”, in Discover Magazine: Neuroskeptic blog, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2017

Forms of Roget

third-person singular presentRogets
present participleRogeting
past participleRogeted
pastRogeted

Origin of Roget

Eponymous, named after Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)'s 1805 thesaurus.

Words formed from Roget

Questions about Roget

What does Roget mean?
Roget means a surname.
What part of speech is Roget?
Roget can be a proper noun or a verb.

Words near Roget in the dictionary

  1. Rogerson
  2. Rogersons
  3. Rogerstone
  4. Rogersville
  5. roges
  6. Roget
  7. Roget's
  8. Rogeted
  9. Rogetian
  10. Rogeting
  11. Rogetism

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