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noun ˈrəʊvəˈroʊvər 1A person who spends their time wandering. they became rovers who departed further and further from civilization Example sentencesExamples - But who is he, this invisible being that rules me, this unknowable being, this rover of a supernatural race?
- I could take on a crew and sail to Canada in my own boat instead of booking passage, or turn into a rover of the sea, going where I please and doing what I like.
Synonyms wanderer, traveller, globetrotter, drifter, bird of passage, roamer, itinerant, transient nomad, gypsy, Romany tramp, vagrant, vagabond North American hobo informal gadabout Scottish archaic landloper 2(in various sports) a player not restricted to a particular position on the field. - 2.1Australian Rules Football One of the three players making up a ruck, typically one who is small, fast, and skilful at receiving the ball.
3A vehicle for driving over rough terrain, especially one driven by remote control over extraterrestrial terrain. Example sentencesExamples - Both Mars rovers came into their landings faster than expected, only just decelerating in time even with the benefit of braking thrusters.
- The round rocks were spotted on Mars five days after Opportunity, one of the two Mars rovers, landed.
- One was even was captured by both of the rover's cameras, allowing the mission scientists to calculate its speed and direction.
- Nasa has announced further evidence of a watery history on Mars, from both its rovers.
- Testing by the original equipment manufacturer revealed that, sadly, the rover's existing grinding tool was not up to the task of drilling into a meteorite.
- The question we've asked ourselves is could we reprogram the rover to uplink data to the Mars Odyssey satellite to hold it there?
- This inactivity could be thought of as weekend sunbathing, as it will give the rovers a chance to recharge their photovoltaic cells after a low energy winter.
- Two rovers are scheduled to descend to the surface and fetch some samples in our ongoing search for life on Mars.
- Both rovers are in strong positions to continue exploring, but we can't give you any guarantees.
- This allows us to program the rover's traverses across the terrain visually and to place its arm with a high degree of precision.
- Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will spend another six months crawling over the surface of the red planet and sending data back to Earth.
- So any reduction in wait time can be important particularly if you're remote-controlling a Mars rover.
- Instead of roaming the surface like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, it has a robotic arm that will dig into the Martian surface to collect samples for analysis.
- A successful outcome could ultimately lead to its use in autonomous planetary rovers and robot aircraft.
- The soldiers fell and Fox gunned the engine of his rover to bring him parallel with the skimmer.
- The pictures showed fresh wheel tracks in the sand, stretching out behind the rover as it continues its exploration of the Martian surface.
- Both rovers report positive indications that water flowed on the surface of the planet.
- The mission will send a lander and a rover to the red planet to carry out exobiology and geophysical analysis of the Martian environment.
- The rover uses two camera-style lithium batteries.
- Since the rovers began sending pictures back, helpful members of the public have been calling and emailing NASA with news of their discoveries.
4Croquet A ball that has passed all the hoops but not pegged out. - 4.1 A player who has a rover ball.
5Archery A mark for long-distance shooting. - 5.1 A mark chosen at random and not at a determined range.
6A member of a Scouting organization aged around 17–24. Example sentencesExamples - It was between 1926 and 1936 that I was Scouting and I remember his dad at that time as a Rover Scout, as was my brother, who later became Cub Master.
Rhymes Canova, Casanova, clover, Dover, drover, Grsbover, Jehovah, left-over, Markova, Moldova, moreover, Navrátilová, nova, ova, over, Pavlova, trover, up-and-over noun ˈrəʊvəˈroʊvər archaic Origin Middle English: from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rōver, from rōven 'rob'; related to reave. noun ˈrəʊvəˈroʊvər A person or machine that makes roves of fibre. See rove nounˈrōvərˈroʊvər 1A person who spends their time wandering. they became rovers who departed further and further from civilization Example sentencesExamples - But who is he, this invisible being that rules me, this unknowable being, this rover of a supernatural race?
- I could take on a crew and sail to Canada in my own boat instead of booking passage, or turn into a rover of the sea, going where I please and doing what I like.
Synonyms wanderer, traveller, globetrotter, drifter, bird of passage, roamer, itinerant, transient 2(in various sports) a player not restricted to a particular position on the field. 3A vehicle for driving over rough terrain, especially one driven by remote control over extraterrestrial terrain. Example sentencesExamples - A successful outcome could ultimately lead to its use in autonomous planetary rovers and robot aircraft.
- Testing by the original equipment manufacturer revealed that, sadly, the rover's existing grinding tool was not up to the task of drilling into a meteorite.
- The pictures showed fresh wheel tracks in the sand, stretching out behind the rover as it continues its exploration of the Martian surface.
- This inactivity could be thought of as weekend sunbathing, as it will give the rovers a chance to recharge their photovoltaic cells after a low energy winter.
- Both rovers are in strong positions to continue exploring, but we can't give you any guarantees.
- Since the rovers began sending pictures back, helpful members of the public have been calling and emailing NASA with news of their discoveries.
- Instead of roaming the surface like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, it has a robotic arm that will dig into the Martian surface to collect samples for analysis.
- One was even was captured by both of the rover's cameras, allowing the mission scientists to calculate its speed and direction.
- Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will spend another six months crawling over the surface of the red planet and sending data back to Earth.
- Nasa has announced further evidence of a watery history on Mars, from both its rovers.
- The question we've asked ourselves is could we reprogram the rover to uplink data to the Mars Odyssey satellite to hold it there?
- The rover uses two camera-style lithium batteries.
- Two rovers are scheduled to descend to the surface and fetch some samples in our ongoing search for life on Mars.
- Both rovers report positive indications that water flowed on the surface of the planet.
- This allows us to program the rover's traverses across the terrain visually and to place its arm with a high degree of precision.
- So any reduction in wait time can be important particularly if you're remote-controlling a Mars rover.
- Both Mars rovers came into their landings faster than expected, only just decelerating in time even with the benefit of braking thrusters.
- The mission will send a lander and a rover to the red planet to carry out exobiology and geophysical analysis of the Martian environment.
- The soldiers fell and Fox gunned the engine of his rover to bring him parallel with the skimmer.
- The round rocks were spotted on Mars five days after Opportunity, one of the two Mars rovers, landed.
4Croquet A ball that has passed all the wickets but not pegged out. - 4.1 A player who has a rover ball.
5Archery A target for long-distance shooting. - 5.1 A target chosen at random and not at a determined range.
Origin Middle English: from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rōver, from rōven ‘rob’; related to reave. nounˈrōvərˈroʊvər A person or machine that makes roves of fiber. See rove |