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I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.
Sloane Crosley

Meaning of "roaming" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROAMING

roaming  [ˈrəʊmɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROAMING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roaming is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROAMING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Roaming

Roaming helps ensure that a traveling wireless device is kept connected to a network without breaking the connection. In wireless telecommunications, Traditional Roaming is a general term referring to the ability for a cellular customer to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive data, or access other services, including home data services, when travelling outside the geographical coverage area of the home network, by means of using a visited network. For example; should you travel beyond your cell phone company's transmitter range, your cell phone would automatically hop onto another phone company's service, if available. Using another phone company's service can be done by using the subscriber identity in the visited network. Roaming is technically supported by mobility management, authentication, authorization and accounting billing procedures. The term "roaming" originates from the GSM standard used by mobile phones, which is the de facto global standard for mobile communications with over 80% market share. The term "roaming" can also be applied to the CDMA technology,.

Definition of roaming in the English dictionary

The definition of roaming in the dictionary is the service provided by a mobile phone company which makes it possible for you to use your mobile phone when you travel abroad.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROAMING


antifoaming
ˌæntɪˈfəʊmɪŋ
assuming
əˈsjuːmɪŋ
beachcombing
ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmɪŋ
becoming
bɪˈkʌmɪŋ
charming
ˈtʃɑːmɪŋ
coaming
ˈkəʊmɪŋ
coming
ˈkʌmɪŋ
gaming
ˈɡeɪmɪŋ
gloaming
ˈɡləʊmɪŋ
homecoming
ˈhəʊmˌkʌmɪŋ
homing
ˈhəʊmɪŋ
performing
pəˈfɔːmɪŋ
programming
ˈprəʊɡræmɪŋ
re-homing
ˌriːˈhəʊmɪŋ
scroming
ˈskrəʊmɪŋ
streaming
ˈstriːmɪŋ
swimming
ˈswɪmɪŋ
timing
ˈtaɪmɪŋ
upcoming
ˌʌpˈkʌmɪŋ
Wyoming
waɪˈəʊmɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROAMING

roadstead
roadster
roadway
roadwork
roadworks
roadworthies
roadworthiness
roadworthy
roam
roamer
roan
Roanoke Island
roar
roar up
roarer
roaring
roaring days
Roaring Forties
Roaring Twenties
roaringly

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROAMING

advergaming
beaming
benaming
daydreaming
dreaming
exergaming
farming
flaming
framing
gleaming
grooming
instreaming
mainstreaming
picture-framing
screaming
shaming
social gaming
steaming
taming
undreaming

Synonyms and antonyms of roaming in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROAMING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «roaming» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of roaming

Translation of «roaming» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROAMING

Find out the translation of roaming to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of roaming from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roaming» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 漫游
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

itinerancia
570 millions of speakers

English

roaming
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रोमिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التجوال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

роуминг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serviço que permite fazer ligações por meio de outra operadora em uma área fora da cobertura normal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘুরে বেরানো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

roaming
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perayauan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Roaming
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ローミング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

로밍 서비스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roaming
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuyển vùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றி கொண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रोमिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolaşım
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

roaming
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

roamingu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роумінг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de roaming
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιαγωγής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

roaming
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

roaming
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

roaming
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roaming

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROAMING»

The term «roaming» is very widely used and occupies the 17.822 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROAMING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «roaming» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «roaming» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roaming

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROAMING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word roaming.
1
James Altucher
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
2
Christian Bale
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
3
Standing Bear
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.
4
Buffalo Bill
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
5
Buffalo Bill
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
6
Warren E. Burger
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
7
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
8
Sloane Crosley
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.
9
Spike Lee
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
10
Cherie Lunghi
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROAMING»

Discover the use of roaming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roaming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS: Open ...
This book provides a detailed technical guide to the virtual and optimised roaming systems for mobile networks Written by a pioneer in the field, this book focuses on the implementation of virtual roaming systems.
Arnaud Henry-Labordere, 2009
2
Secure Roaming in 802.11 Networks
This book explores the fundamental concepts, basic theory, and key principles of 802.11 networks with roaming capabilities.
Paul Goransson, Raymond Greenlaw, 2011
3
Roaming in Wireless Networks
Based upon training courses the author teaches at Agilent and Hewlett-Packard, this is the first book to give communications engineers the know-how to faultlessly design and manage roaming services.
Shahid Siddiqui, 2005
4
Roaming: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up.
‎2008
5
Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tourist Track
Suitable for adventure traveler, the business visitor and the expatriate, the book guides visitors beyond the typical tourist destinations into the experience of Kyrgyz life and culture.
Jessica Jacobson, 2008
6
Roaming Through the West Indies
ROAMING. THROUGH. THE. WEST. INDIES. CHAPTER I OVERLAND TO THE WEST INDIES WE concluded that if we were to spend half a year or more rambling through the West Indies we would get sea-water enough without taking to the ...
Harry Alverson Franck, 1920
7
Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature
Writing the Roaming Subject explores issues of identity formation, representation, and resistance in Canada and suggests that these are particularly crucial questions during a period of Canadian literary history.
Joanne Saul, 2006
8
The Roaming Mechanism: A New Way to Look at Reaction Dynamics
The roaming mechanism is a newly discovered reaction pathway of formaldehyde dissociation.
Sridhar A. Lahankar, 2007
9
Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment
client computers to a server that you have designated for storing roaming user profiles. A second method involves creating and customizing a user profile on a client computer that you use as a companywide standard. You can then manually  ...
Dan Balter, Ed Tittel, 2003
10
Mobile phone "roaming" costs: twenty-fourth report of ...
(26a) Transparency also requires that providers furnish information on roaming charges in particular on the Eurotariff and the all-inclusive flat-rate, should they offer one, when subscriptions are taken out and each time there is a change in ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROAMING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roaming is used in the context of the following news items.
1
T-Mobile US launches free roaming, 4G data for travelers to Canada …
U.S. carriers normally charge extra for roaming in North America. Without buying special travel packages, people can easily rack up hundreds or even ... «Apple Insider, Jul 15»
2
MNP explained: From today, retain your number while shifting cities …
Currently, you have to pay roaming charges if you use your number outside your home city, except for BSNL. Also, a person is billed on STD rates for the calls. «Firstpost, Jul 15»
3
End of roaming charges: presidency strikes a deal with European …
Under the agreement, roaming surcharges in the European Union will be abolished as of 15 June 2017. However, roaming providers will be able to apply a 'fair ... «EU News, Jun 15»
4
BSNL to launch free roaming starting Monday
NEW DELHI: State-run BSNL will launch free roaming, starting tomorrow, which will allow all its mobile customers across the country to receive incoming calls at ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
5
BSNL to offer free national roaming from June 15
NEW DELHI: Union telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that state-owned operator BSNL will provide nationwide free roaming service starting ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
6
CRTC caps wireless roaming rates that Big 3 can charge small rivals
"We now have a certainty that access to spectrum and roaming is now an essential service. It'll be regulated by the CRTC in a fair way through a negotiated price ... «CBC.ca, May 15»
7
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea slash national roaming charges
NEW DELHI: India's top telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have announced they are cutting national roaming tariff, days after telecom ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
8
It's finally happening: Roaming prices to drop from 1 May
Aiming to give some benefit to mobile phone subscribers, the telecom regulator has reduced tariff ceiling for national roaming calls and messages and has ... «Firstpost, Apr 15»
9
Roaming 'disorderly' goat corralled after head-butting door
Officers captured the goat as it was running in the roadway. Photo: Paramus Police Department Facebook. PARAMUS, N.J. -. A "disorderly" goat has been ... «KHQ Right Now, Apr 15»
10
Google's mobile network could offer free international 'roaming'
Roaming fees are a painful part of mobile phone service for people who travel outside their home countries. They can be socked with steep fees for calls, text ... «CNET, Apr 15»

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