roving vs transitive

roving

adj
  • Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place. 

  • Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on on subject. 

noun
  • A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting. 

  • The process of giving the first twist to yarn. 

transitive

adj
  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words roving and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )