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ram·ble

(răm′bəl)

v. ram·bled, ram·bling, ram·bles

v.intr. ram·bled, ram·bling, ram·bles

1. To move about aimlessly: rambled around the park for an hour; rambled around the southwest. See Synonyms at wander.

2. To walk casually or leisurely: rambled over to the neighbor's house.

3. To follow an irregularly winding course of motion or growth: Vines rambled over the fence.

4. To speak or write at length and with many digressions: rambled on about his childhood.

v.tr.

To move about aimlessly through or over: rambled the back streets of town.

A leisurely, sometimes lengthy walk.

[Probably from Middle Dutch *rammelen, to wander about in a state of sexual desire, from rammen, to copulate with.]

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ramble

(ˈræmbəl)

vb (intr)

1. to stroll about freely, as for relaxation, with no particular direction

2. (of paths, streams, etc) to follow a winding course; meander

3. (Botany) (of plants) to grow in a random fashion

4. (of speech, writing, etc) to lack organization

a leisurely stroll, esp in the countryside

[C17: probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen to roam (of animals); see ram]

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ram•ble

(ˈræm bəl)

v. -bled, -bling,
n. v.i.

1. to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner; stroll.

2. to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path.

3. to grow or spread in a random, unsystematic fashion, as a vine.

4. to talk or write in a discursive, aimless manner: The speaker rambled on endlessly.

v.t.

5. to walk aimlessly or idly over or through.

6. a leisurely walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure.

[1610–20; orig. uncertain]

ram′bling•ly, adv.

ram′bling•ness, n.

ramble

Past participle: rambled
Gerund: rambling

Imperative
ramble
ramble

Present
I ramble
you ramble
he/she/it rambles
we ramble
you ramble
they ramble

Preterite
I rambled
you rambled
he/she/it rambled
we rambled
you rambled
they rambled

Present Continuous
I am rambling
you are rambling
he/she/it is rambling
we are rambling
you are rambling
they are rambling

Present Perfect
I have rambled
you have rambled
he/she/it has rambled
we have rambled
you have rambled
they have rambled

Past Continuous
I was rambling
you were rambling
he/she/it was rambling
we were rambling
you were rambling
they were rambling

Past Perfect
I had rambled
you had rambled
he/she/it had rambled
we had rambled
you had rambled
they had rambled

Future
I will ramble
you will ramble
he/she/it will ramble
we will ramble
you will ramble
they will ramble

Future Perfect
I will have rambled
you will have rambled
he/she/it will have rambled
we will have rambled
you will have rambled
they will have rambled

Future Continuous
I will be rambling
you will be rambling
he/she/it will be rambling
we will be rambling
you will be rambling
they will be rambling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been rambling
you have been rambling
he/she/it has been rambling
we have been rambling
you have been rambling
they have been rambling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been rambling
you will have been rambling
he/she/it will have been rambling
we will have been rambling
you will have been rambling
they will have been rambling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been rambling
you had been rambling
he/she/it had been rambling
we had been rambling
you had been rambling
they had been rambling

Conditional
I would ramble
you would ramble
he/she/it would ramble
we would ramble
you would ramble
they would ramble

Past Conditional
I would have rambled
you would have rambled
he/she/it would have rambled
we would have rambled
you would have rambled
they would have rambled

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Noun	1.	ramble - an aimless amble on a winding course meander amble, stroll, saunter, perambulation, promenade - a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Verb	1.	ramble - continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs" jog, ramble on proceed, continue, carry on, go on - continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"
	2.	ramble - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" roam, rove, stray, vagabond, wander, range, swan, drift, tramp, cast, roll go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" maunder - wander aimlessly gad, gallivant, jazz around - wander aimlessly in search of pleasure drift, err, stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

ramble

noun

1. walk, tour, trip, stroll, hike, roaming, excursion, roving, saunter, traipse (informal), peregrination, perambulation an hour's ramble through the woods

verb

1. walk, range, drift, wander, stroll, stray, roam, rove, amble, saunter, straggle, traipse (informal), go walkabout (Austral.), perambulate, stravaig (Scot. & Northern English dialect), peregrinate freedom to ramble across the moors

2. (often with on) babble, go on, gas, wander, rabbit (on) (Brit. informal), rattle, chatter, spout, waffle (informal, chiefly Brit.), drivel, drone on, gab, twitter, digress, jabber, gabble, rattle on, maunder, witter on (informal), blether, expatiate, run off at the mouth (slang) Sometimes she tended to ramble.

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ramble

verb

1. To move about at random, especially over a wide area:

drift, gad, gallivant, meander, peregrinate, range, roam, rove, stray, traipse, wander.

2. To walk at a leisurely pace:

amble, meander, perambulate, promenade, saunter, stroll, wander.

Informal: mosey.

3. To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking:

deviate, digress, divagate, diverge, stray, wander.

Idiom: go off at a tangent.

noun

An act of walking, especially for pleasure:

amble, meander (often used in plural), perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll, walk, wander.

Translations

نُزْهَه، تَجَوُّليَتَجَوَّل، يَتَنَزَّهيَشُطُّ في الكَلام

procházet seprocházkatúražvanit

vandrevandreturvrøvle

abschweifen Streifzug umherstreifen

βόλτα

divaguer randonnée

kószálás

gönguferîráfavaîa úr einu í annaî

passeggiare passeggiata sconnesso vagare divagare

kalbėti be sąryšioklajotiklajotojasnerišluspakrikas

klaiņotpastaigapastaigāties

gå tur snakke i hytt og vær tøve

блуждать

trepať

izletpotepanje

ipe sapa gelmez lâflar etmekkırlarda dolaşmaşaşkın şaşkın konuşmakyürüyüşe çıkmak

漫步漫步于...漫谈聊天

ramble

[ˈræmbl]

A. N → paseo m, excursión f
to go for a ramble → dar un paseo

B. VI

1. (= walk) → pasear
we spent a week rambling in the hills → pasamos una semana de excursión en la montaña or la sierra

2. (in speech) → divagar, perder el hilo
he just rambled on and on → siguió divagando

3. [river] → formar meandros; [plant] → trepar, enredarse

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ramble

[ˈræmb^əl]

n → randonnée f
to go for a ramble → faire une randonnée

(= hike) → faire de la randonnée

(= talk confusedly) → radoter

ramble on

vi (= talk at length) → déblatérer
to ramble on about sth → déblatérer sur qch

ramble

n → Streifzug m; (esp Brit: = hike) → Wanderung f; to go for or on a ramble → einen Streifzug/eine Wanderung machen

(= wander about) → Streifzüge/einen Streifzug machen; (esp Brit: = go on hike) → wandern

(in speech: old person) → unzusammenhängendes Zeug reden, faseln (inf); (pej: also ramble on) → schwafeln (inf), → vom Hundertsten ins Tausendste kommen

(Hort) → ranken, klettern

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ramble

[ˈræmbl]

1. n → (lunga) passeggiata; (hike) → escursione f

2. vi

a. (walk) → gironzolare, vagare; (hike) → fare escursioni

b. (fig) (in speech) → divagare, dilungarsi
to ramble on → sproloquiare
his mind has started to ramble → è un po' svanito

ramble

(ˈrӕmbl) verb

1. to go for a long walk or walks, usually in the countryside, for pleasure.

2. to speak in an aimless or confused way.

noun

a long walk, usually in the countryside, taken for pleasure.

ˈrambler noun

1. a climbing plant (usually a rose).

2. a person who goes walking in the country for pleasure.

ˈrambling adjective

1. aimless and confused; not keeping to the topic. a long, rambling speech.

2. built (as if) without any plan, stretching in various directions. a rambling old house.

3. (of plants, usually roses) climbing.

ramble on

to talk for a long time in an aimless or confused way.

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One evening in March, Rosamond in her cherry-colored dress with swansdown trimming about the throat sat at the tea-table; Lydgate, lately come in tired from his outdoor work, was seated sideways on an easy-chair by the fire with one leg over the elbow, his brow looking a little troubled as his eyes rambled over the columns of the "Pioneer," while Rosamond, having noticed that he was perturbed, avoided looking at him, and inwardly thanked heaven that she herself had not a moody disposition.

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Since the latter rambled from her side, another inmate had been admitted within the circle of the mother's feelings, and so modified the aspect of them all, that Pearl, the returning wanderer, could not find her wonted place, and hardly knew where she was.

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From each island proceeded a serpentine trail, by which the cow had rambled away to feed after getting up, at the end of which trail they found her; the snoring puff from her nostrils, when she recognized them, making an intenser little fog of her own amid the prevailing one.

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