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roam

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verb/ɹəʊm//ɹoʊm/
  1. 1

    To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.intransitive

    • 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.
    • Oh, never will I roam / Now I know my place is home / Where the ocean meets the sky / I'll be sailin'
  2. 2

    To range or wander over.transitive

    • Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.
  3. 3

    To use a network or service from different locations or devices.intransitive

  4. 4

    To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.transitive

    • 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.
noun/ɹəʊm//ɹoʊm/
  1. 1

    The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination

    • Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor.

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