rogue
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Is rogue a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.Examples: "An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'."; "Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues."; "Now though researchers at Microsoft's Malware Protection Center are reporting a downward trend in the traffic generated by some of the most popular rogues over the past 12 months."
2. (roleplaying games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
adj (English)
1. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.Examples: "Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito."
2. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.broadly
3. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.Examples: "In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment."broadly
verb (English)
1. (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.Examples: "2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub. Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue."
2. (transitive, dated) To cheat.Examples: "And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact."datedtransitive
3. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.Examples: "he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance"obsolete
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.Examples: "if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing"intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary