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(rambles, rambling, rambled) 1. A ramble is a long walk in the countryside. ...an hour’s ramble through the woods. N-COUNT 2. If you ramble, you go on a long walk in the countryside. ...freedom to ramble across the moors. VERB: V adv/prep 3. If you say that a person rambles in their speech or writing, you mean they do not make much sense because they keep going off the subject in a confused way. Sometimes she spoke sensibly; sometimes she rambled... VERB: V
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I. verb (~d; rambling) Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of romblen, frequentative of romen to roam Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. a. to move aimlessly from place to place b. to explore idly 2. to talk or write in a desultory or long-winded wandering fashion 3. to grow or extend irregularly transitive verb to wander over ; roam Synonyms: see wander • ramblingly adverb II. noun Date: 1654 1. a leisurely excursion for pleasure; especially an aimless walk 2. a rambling story or discussion ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.intr. 1 walk for pleasure, with or without a definite route. 2 wander in discourse, talk or write disconnectedly. --n. a walk taken for pleasure. Etymology: prob. f. MDu. rammelen (of an animal) wander about in sexual excitement, frequent. of rammen copulate with, rel. to RAM ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. прогулка (без определенной цели); бесцельное хождение 2. несвязная речь; путаница; бред 3. популяризаторская статья a ramble among books —- "беседа о книгах", "прогулка по книгам" 4. гулять, бродить (без определенной цели) to ramble through the streets —- бродить по улицам 5. перескакивать с предмета на предмет (в разговоре, сочинении) 6. болтать о пустяках, молоть вздор (также ramble on) 7. говорить несвязно, бредить 8. читать без разбору 9. ползти, виться (о растении) 10. мор. рыскать (о судне) 11. горн. ложная кровля ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) прогулка, поездка (без определенной цели) 2) экскурсия 2. v. 1) бродить без цели, для удовольствия 2) говорить бессвязно, перескакивать с одной мысли на другую (тж. ramble on); Her letter doesnt contain any news, but it rambles on for pages. 3) ползти, виться (о растениях) Syn: see wander ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 always + adv/prep to go on a walk for pleasure + through/along etc (We rambled through the woods.) 2 to talk in a very confused way so that other people find it hard to understand you (The fever was getting worse and he was starting to ramble.) 3 a plant that rambles grows in all directions ramble on phr v to talk or write for a long time in a way that other people find boring (He rambled on about his trip to Paris.) ~2 n a long walk for pleasure (We went on a ramble in the Peak District.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1443, perhaps frequentive of romen "to walk, go" (see roam), perhaps via romblen (c.1378) "to ramble." The vowel change probably by infl. of M.Du. rammelen, a derivative of rammen "copulate," "used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat" [Weekley]. Meaning "to talk or write incoherently" is from 1640. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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