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roost

(ro͞ost)

1. A place where winged animals, especially birds or bats, rest or sleep.

2. A group of animals in a roost.

3. A place for temporary rest or sleep: "One corner of the Panhandle served as a roost for outlaws, thieves, and killers" (Timothy Egan).

intr.v. roost·ed, roost·ing, roosts

1. To rest or sleep on a perch or in a roost.

2. To rest or sleep: "We roosted high on a hill with a bottle of cheap wine and a blanket" (Julie Auer).

Idioms:

come home to roost

To have repercussions or aftereffects, especially unfavorable ones: The consequences of your mistake will eventually come home to roost.

rule the roost Informal

To be in charge; dominate: In this house my parents rule the roost.

[Middle English rooste, from Old English hrōst.]

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roost

(ruːst)

1. (Zoology) a place, perch, branch, etc, where birds, esp domestic fowl, rest or sleep

2. a temporary place to rest or stay

3. rule the roost See rule²⁰

vb (intr)

4. (Zoology) to rest or sleep on a roost

5. to settle down or stay

6. come home to roost to have unfavourable repercussions

[Old English hrōst; related to Old Saxon hrost loft, German Rost grid]

Roost

(ruːst)

(Physical Geography) the Roost a powerful current caused by conflicting tides around the Shetland and Orkney Islands

[C16: from Old Norse röst]

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roost

(rust)

n.

1. a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.

2. a large cage, house, or other place for fowls or birds to roost in.

3. a place for resting or lodging.

v.i.

4. to sit or rest on a perch, branch, etc.

5. to settle or stay, esp. for the night.

Idioms:

1. come home to roost, (of an action) to react unfavorably on the doer; boomerang.

2. rule the roost, to be in charge or control; dominate.

[before 1100; Middle English roost (n.), Old English hrōst; c. Middle Dutch roest]

Roost

a collection of fowls roosting together.

Examples: roost of bats hanging from trees—David Attenborough; of fowls; of small birds, 1827.

roost

Past participle: roosted
Gerund: roosting

Imperative
roost
roost

Present
I roost
you roost
he/she/it roosts
we roost
you roost
they roost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Noun	1.	roost - a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds henroost - a roost for hens at night perch - support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) shelter - protective covering that provides protection from the weather
	2.	roost - a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep perch - support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
Verb	1.	roost - sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree" perch, rest sit, sit down - be seated
	2.	roost - settle down or stay, as if on a roost steady down, take root, settle down, root, settle - become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"

Translations

يَجْثُم

hřadhřadovatkurník

sovepind

kotiutuaorsi

elülülõ

fugla-/hænsnaprik; greinsitja/sofa á priki/grein

appollaiarsi pollaio posatoio essere il padrone del vapore

duoti tonątupėti ant laktos

laktatupēt uz laktas

sovested vagle vagle seg

tünektünemek

栖息栖木鸡棚

roost

[ruːst]

A. N (gen) → percha f; (= hen roost) → gallinero m
to rule the roost → llevar la batuta

B. VI

1. (lit) → dormir posado

2. (fig) to come home to roost: now his policies have come home to roost → ahora su política produce su fruto amargo, ahora se están viendo los malos resultados de su política
these measures only camouflaged the real problem, now the chickens are coming home to roost → estas medidas no eran más que una manera de camuflar el problema y ahora se vuelven contra nosotros, estas medidas sólo camuflaban el problema y ahora se ve que fueron pan para hoy y hambre para mañana

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

roost

[ˈruːst]

n [bird] → juchoir m
to rule the roost [person] → faire la loi

[bird] → se jucher

the chickens have come home to roost → on récolte ce qu'on a semé

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

roost

n (= pole) → Stange f; (= henhouse) → Hühnerhaus nt → or -stall m; at roost → auf der Stange; to come home to roost (fig) → auf den Urheber zurückfallen ? cock, rule

vi (= settle) → sich niederlassen; (= sleep) → auf der Stange schlafen

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

roost

[ruːst]

1. n → posatoio
to rule the roost → dettar legge

2. vi → appollaiarsi
now the chickens are coming home to roost! (fig) → ora arriva il momento della resa dei conti!

roost

(ruːst) noun

a branch etc on which a bird rests at night.

verb

(of birds) to sit or sleep on a roost.

ˈrooster noun

(especially American) a farmyard cock.

rule the roost

to be the person in a group, family etc whose orders, wishes etc are obeyed.

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Of course, we had one particular tree in which we usually roosted, though we often roosted in other trees when nightfall caught us.

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It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.

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"Well, sir, they roosted around here on the housetop and the trees for an hour, and guffawed over that thing like human beings.

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The largest grouping of gray bats was observed on a bridge in Newton County on April 27, 2018 when 12 gray bats (11M: IF) along with four big brown bats were captured; two male gray bats were roosting in the same crevice, one male gray bat was roosting with a big brown bat, and the rest roosted singly in other crevices.

Gray Bat Day Roosts in Concrete Barriers on Bridges during Migration

My good buddy and turkey hunting Professor Emeritus Ray Eye swears by using turkey calls to find roosted toms.

Ruling the roost: A little preparation pays big dividends

During eight of 10 visits, some bats roosted in slots at the ends of the bridge, allowing access for sampling of individuals.

YEAR-ROUND BRIDGE COLONY OF MEXICAN FREE-TAILED BATS (TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS MEXICANA) IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS

2011c) that roosted exclusively within tree hollows.

The diet and roosting sites of sooty owls Tyto tenebricosa from coastal habitats at Cape Conran, Victoria

However, bats roosted approximately 38 m from the cave floor during both seasons, which prevented us from obtaining the resolution necessary to count individual bats for density estimates.

Baseline population estimates and microclimate data for newly established overwintering Brazilian free-tailed bat colonies in central Texas

Early the next morning, I went out with two goals: to learn where the birds roosted, and why they traveled the particular pattern they traveled.

Pattern your turkey for success: knowing why turkeys do what they do on a daily basis will give you the edge this spring

All of the females roosted in a single building, with 1 using a bat house for 2 nights.

Roost-site selection and movements of Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus) in southwestern Yukon

" He said that as with other long-eared bats, the preferred roost of the species was in large roof spaces where they could fly around, but they often roosted behind ridge beams, so their presence wasn't always obvious.

How's about bat! It's 'plecotus austriacus'

"They found a hole in the chimney breast attached to the side of the house and they have roosted there ever since."