rover
1 Americannoun
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a person who roves; wanderer.
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Archery.
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a mark selected at random, as in a competition between two archers wandering over a specified area.
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one of a group of fixed marks at a long distance.
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an archer who shoots at such a mark.
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Croquet. a ball that has been driven through all the arches and needs only to strike the last peg to be out of the game.
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British.
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(at concerts or the like) a person who has a ticket for standing room only.
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a senior boy scout, 18 years of age or older.
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a pirate.
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Obsolete. a pirate ship.
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a machine that twists, draws out, and cleans fibers prior to spinning; a roving machine.
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a roving-machine operator.
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a person who roves; wanderer
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archery a mark selected at random for use as a target
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croquet a ball that has been driven through all the hoops but has not yet hit the winning peg
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Australian rules football one of the three players in the ruck, usually smaller than the other two, selected for his agility in play
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a small remote-controlled vehicle which roams over rough, esp extraterrestrial, terrain taking photographs, gathering rock and soil samples, etc
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Etymology
Origin of rover1
First recorded in 1490–1500; rove 1 + -er 1
Origin of rover2
First recorded in 1350–1400 rover 2 for def. 1 and in 1530–40 rover 2 for def. 2; Middle English rover(e) “pirate,” from Middle Dutch rover(e) or Middle Low German rover “robber,” equivalent to roven “to rob” + -er; reave 1; -er 1 ( def. )
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Example Sentences
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A new scientific analysis suggests that known non biological processes cannot fully explain the amount of organic material discovered in a rock collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
From Science Daily
Mars lacks trees and other familiar climate markers, so the researchers relied instead on data collected by Mars rovers.
From Science Daily
NASA's Perseverance rover has now completed the first drives on another planet that were planned by artificial intelligence.
From Science Daily
Horgan serves as a long-term planner on NASA's Perseverance rover mission and is a professor of planetary science in Purdue's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
From Science Daily
It resembles a space mission, with an intrepid rover traversing desolate distant terrain.
From Barron's
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