roaming

English

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roaming

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊmɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊmɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ

Verb

roaming

1. present participle and gerund of roam

Noun

roaming (countable and uncountable, plural roamings)

1. (countable) An instance of wandering.
   • 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     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.

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
3. (uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.
4. (uncountable, computing, operating system) Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.

Translations

wandering

Finnish: vaeltelu (fi), harhailu (fi) French: vagabondage (fr) m Georgian: ხეტიალი (ka) (xeṭiali) German: Wandern (de) n Greek: Ancient Greek: πλάνη f (plánē) Hindi: घूमना (hi) (ghūmnā) Hungarian: barangolás (hu), kóborlás (hu), bolyongás (hu), kószálás (hu), bóklászás (hu), kódorgás, csavargás (hu) Russian: блужда́ния (ru) n pl (bluždánija), стра́нствия (ru) n pl (stránstvija), скита́ния (ru) n pl (skitánija) Scottish Gaelic: allaban m Turkish: dolaşma (tr)

using a cell phone outside of its original registering zone

Arabic: تجوال m (tajwāl), رومينغ (rūmīnġ) Catalan: itinerància f Chinese: Mandarin: 漫遊 / 漫游 (zh) (mànyóu) Finnish: verkkovierailu (fi), roaming (fi) French: itinérance (fr) f, roaming (fr) m Galician: itinerancia f Georgian: როუმინგი (roumingi) German: Roaming (de) n Greek: περιαγωγή (el) f (periagogí) Hungarian: barangolás (hu), roaming (hu) Italian: roaming (it) m, itineranza (it) f (rare) Japanese: ローミング (rōmingu) Korean: 로밍 (roming) Occitan: itinerància (oc) f Polish: roaming (pl) m Portuguese: itinerância f Russian: ро́уминг (ru) m (róuming) Spanish: itinerancia f Thai: โรมมิ่ง (róom-mîng) Turkish: uluslararası dolaşım

using a network or a service from different locations or devices

Finnish: verkkovierailu (fi), vierailu (fi) Maori: tīpakopako

registering a PC and a cycle of {uploading, editing and downloading} from any networked PC

Finnish: etäkäyttö (fi), vierailu (fi) Maori: tīpakopako

Descendants

• → Spanish: roaming
• → Polish: roaming
• → Romanian: roaming

Anagrams

• moringa

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

roaming

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔw.miŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔwmiŋk
• Syllabification: roa‧ming

Noun

roaming m inan

1. (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

• roamingowy

Further reading

• roaming in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

Noun

roaming n (uncountable)

1. roaming

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	roaming	roamingul
genitive-dative	roaming	roamingului
vocative	roamingule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈromin/ [ˈro.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -omin

Noun

roaming m (plural roamings)

1. 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.