roaming
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊmɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊmɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Verb
roaming
- present participle and gerund of roam
Noun
roaming (countable and uncountable, plural roamings)
- (countable) An instance of wandering.
- 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in New York Times:
- That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.
- (uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
- (uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.
- (uncountable, computing, operating system) Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.
Translations
wandering
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using a cell phone outside of its original registering zone
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using a network or a service from different locations or devices
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registering a PC and a cycle of {uploading, editing and downloading} from any networked PC
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Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.
Pronunciation
Noun
roaming m inan
- (computing, telecommunications) roaming (using a cell phone outside of its original registering zone)
Declension
Declension of roaming
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | roaming |
| genitive | roamingu |
| dative | roamingowi |
| accusative | roaming |
| instrumental | roamingiem |
| locative | roamingu |
| vocative | roamingu |
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- roaming in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.
Noun
roaming n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of roaming (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) roaming | roamingul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) roaming | roamingului |
| vocative | roamingule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.
Pronunciation
Noun
roaming m (plural roamings)
- roaming (telephony)
Usage notes
- According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.