Meaning of Roe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of return on equity, a measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Eggs of fish.
   uncountable, usually
3. Ellipsis of roe deer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. A surname transferred from the nickname.
   countable, uncountable
5. Ellipsis of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court case which legalized abortion and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
6. A river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
7. Initialism of rule(s) of engagement, a/the rule(s) governing when to fire or return fire.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
8. Sperm of certain fish.
   uncountable, usually
9. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
10. A town in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.
    countable, uncountable
11. Abbreviation of record of employment.
    abbreviation, alt-of
12. Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    uncountable, usually

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Examples

“It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.”

“Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market.”

“And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.”

“The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.”

“"[...] and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. But he will serve to show how my dogs run [...]"”

“Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe.”

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