Definizione monolingua

rogue

rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing, simple past and past participle rogued)

1. cull, term used by gardeners, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
   • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.

     Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. Its usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.

rogue (plural rogues)

1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
2. A mischievous scamp.
3. A vagrant.
4. Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
6. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
   • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.

     Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. Its usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.

rogue (comparative more rogue, superlative most rogue)

1. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
2. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
3. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the ""Silent Majority"" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixons two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.

Definizione dizionario rogue

birbante

birichino

briccone

canaglia

criminale

delinquente

farabutto

furfante

malandrino

mariolo

mascalzone

masnadiere

picaro

scellerato

vagabondo

Altri significati:

cull, term used by gardeners, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.

A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.

A vagrant.

rogue (something)

A mischievous scamp.

Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.

A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.