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rover

ˈroʊvər
WordNet
Boniface IV Paleologo, Margrave of Monferrato, with the imperial scepter and Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, with the imperial sword, plate BB. Procession of Charles V with Pope Clement VII in Bologna after his coronation to Emperor, February 24, 1530.
Boniface IV Paleologo, Margrave of Monferrato, with the imperial scepter and Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, with the imperial sword, plate BB. Procession of Charles V with Pope Clement VII in Bologna after his coronation to Emperor, February 24, 1530.
  1. (n) rover
    an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
  2. (n) rover
    someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
Illustrations
Half-length portrait, in oval with edge lettering. Julia de la Rovere is dressed in a frock with lace collar, shoulder caps and fancy sleeves. A pearl necklace around her neck. The body (the chest) is trimmed with pearls. Asymmetrical hairstyle made of brushed hair. In the middle of her family crest and caption in Latin.
Half-length portrait, in oval with edge lettering. Julia de la Rovere is dressed in a frock with lace collar, shoulder caps and fancy sleeves. A pearl necklace around her neck. The body (the chest) is trimmed with pearls. Asymmetrical hairstyle made of brushed hair. In the middle of her family crest and caption in Latin.
Façade of Palazzo della Rovere, located on piazza Rovere in Genoa. The palazzo was built between approximately 1580 and 1581 for Clemente della Rovere.
Façade of Palazzo della Rovere, located on piazza Rovere in Genoa. The palazzo was built between approximately 1580 and 1581 for Clemente della Rovere.
Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere, half-length. In her left hand she is holding a flag with a coat of arms on it. The portrait is set in an arc-shaped frame with square edging. In the margin a two-line caption in Latin.
Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere, half-length. In her left hand she is holding a flag with a coat of arms on it. The portrait is set in an arc-shaped frame with square edging. In the margin a two-line caption in Latin.
Family portrait of Diederik baron van Leyden van Vlaardingen with his wife Sophia Dina de Rovere and their three sons Pieter, Jan and Adriaan Pompejus. The family is in an interior with a table on the left with some books, Jan is playing with a dog. There is a bouquet of flowers on the floor. In the background a garden vase with a river god, on the right a view of the garden. The print collection of Pieter Cornelis van Leyden was purchased by King Louis Napoleon in 1806 and forms the basis for the collection of the State Print Room.
Diederik baron van Leyden of Vlaardingen (1695-1764).Mayor of Leiden, with his wife Sophia Dina de Rovere and their three sons Pieter, Jan and Adriaan Pompejus
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Rover
    (Croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
  2. Rover
    (Archery) A sort of arrow.
  3. Rover
    (Archery) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
  4. Rover
    Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
  5. Rover
    One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. "Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships."
  6. Rover
    One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) rover
    A robber, especially a sea-robber; a freebooter; a pirate; a forager.
  2. (n) rover
    One who roves; a wanderer; one who rambles about, or goes at random from point to point.
  3. (n) rover
    Hence A fickle or inconstant person.
  4. (n) rover
    In archery: A person shooting at a mark with a longbow and arrow, or shooting merely for distance, the position of the archer being shifted with every shot, and not confined to a staked-out ground. The flight-arrow was used by the rover.
  5. (n) rover
    An arrow used by a rover. See flight-arrow.
  6. (n) rover
    An irregular or uncertain point to be aimed at; also, a mark at an uncertain or indefinite distance.
  7. (n) rover
    In architecture, any member, as a molding, that follows the line of a curve.
  8. (n) rover
    In croquet: A ball that has gone through all the hoops, and 330 only needs to strike the winning-stake to be out of the game.
  9. (n) rover
    A player whose ball is in the above condition.
  10. (n) rover
    To shoot at random, or without any particular aim.
  11. rover
    To shoot at rovers; shoot arrows at other marks than the butt; shoot for height or distance.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Rover
    one who roves: a robber or pirate: a wanderer: an inconstant person: in archery, a person shooting with a long bow and arrow: an arrow used by a rover: an irregular point to be aimed at: in croquet, a ball that has gone through all the hoops
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary D. roover, a robber. See Rove (v. i.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. rover, a robber—Dut. roover, a pirate, rooven, to rob—roof. The verb rove is from the noun roof, plunder.

Usage in the news

The well-appointed Range Rover Evoque may masquerade as a luxury vehicle when in the city, but it's tough enough to earn its sport utility stripes once it goes off road. mensfitness.com

If you want to power a rover across an alien landscape, solar is the way to go—no fuel tanks required. discovermagazine.com

NASA's rover Sojourner reached Mars after a 200-million-mile journey but then could travel only about 150 feet before getting stuck and running out of power. discovermagazine.com

PASADENA, Calif – The Mars rover Curiosity took a first gander around its neighborhood and found it looks just like home, officials said Wednesday. usatoday.com

0 The rock dubbed "Jake Matijevic," above, is under study by the Mars rover Curiosity. latimes.com

The 2012 Land Rover Defender Special Edition will join the growing list of cool cars that. autoweek.com

NASA's Curiosity Rover Checks In on Foursquare, Aims To Be Mayor of Mars. slate.com

This week, as a $2.5 billion rover touched down on the surface of Mars, U.A.A students were watching intently. ktuu.com

The Range Stormer is a high-performance, sports-tourer SUV concept, meant to showcase a future design direction for Land Rover. motortrend.com

Mars Rover's 'voice' captured during nail-biting landing. foxnews.com

Fury over Rover's National Trust deal. prweek.com

A contract shop produces critical parts for the Curiosity rover that will soon depart for Mars. mmsonline.com

NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to launch to Mars in November. mmsonline.com

Here's Live Coverage of the Mars Rover Landing at 10:31 pm Pacific Time Tonight. motherjones.com

Via BoingBoing, here's a live feed for tonight's landing of the Mars rover Curiosity. motherjones.com

Usage in scientific papers

To validate the auxiliary hypothesis we ran experiments with the rovers as a loosely coordinated domain.
Decentralized Multi-agent Plan Repair in Dynamic Environments

The case seems stronger now with more recent observations by the Rovers and orbiters.
Astrophysics in 2006

Iagnemma (2008). ―A study of visual and tactile terrain classification and classifier fusion for planetary exploration rovers‖.
The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Testing a Novelty-Detection Algorithm on Two Mobile Exploration Systems at Rivas Vaciamadrid in Spain and at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah

From an outsider’s point of view, these capabilities may not seem to be significantly autonomous, in that all the commands are being sent from Earth, and the MER rovers are merely executing those commands.
Field geology with a wearable computer: 1st results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System

Otherwise, the robotic rover exploration system might drive right past an important scientific target-of-opportunity along the way to the humanchosen scientific point-of-interest.
Field geology with a wearable computer: 1st results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System

Usage in literature

The rover blithely promised to pay him back in two monthly payments. "Jane Journeys On" by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Rovere, Francis Maria della, Duke of Urbino, 153. "Henry VIII." by A. F. Pollard

What further reason he may have had for cultivating the friendship of the rover, Pierre Lenoir, will probably show itself in due course. "Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks" by Bracebridge Hemyng

Many a boy has gone to sea and become a rover for life under the influence of Marryat's novels. "How to Succeed" by Orison Swett Marden

As oor respeckit chairman says, I'm no' like Ralph the Rover, sailin' awa' an' scoorin' the sea for mony a day. "My Man Sandy" by J. B. Salmond

Della Rovere, see Rovere. "Lucretia Borgia" by Ferdinand Gregorovius

You know," she added as a crowning inducement, "Rover is there. "Short Stories of Various Types" by Various

Important, too, is the story of supposed Norse sea-rovers hither, derived from certain Icelandic manuscripts of the fourteenth century. "History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI)" by E. Benjamin Andrews

Mr Meyers was now most anxious to rejoin Captain Semmes, or some other rover. "Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863" by Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

But he had been a rover in his boyhood himself, and so he said no more. "The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries" by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Usage in poetry
And could such softness veil deceit ?
And could she wrong so true a lover ?
And could the smile that beam'd so sweet,
Be but a false and faithless rover ?
You are the echo of songs that are over,
You are the promise of songs that will come,
You know the music, oh, light-winged rover,
Sealed in the souls of the dumb.
Well—tell! Where should I fly to,
Where go to sleep in the dark wood or dell?
Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother’s kiss—sweeter this
Than any other thing.
Have patience for a little space,
You might have come to a worse place,
Fair Angel-rover.
No wonder now you would have stayed,
But hush your cries, my little maid,
The journey's over.
Into the wide world the maid and her lover
Wandered by pathways that sundered them far;
From pine-groves to palm-groves, he flitted a rover,
She tended his roses, and watched for his star.
And oh, how we doubt when there's distance 'tween lovers,
When there's naething to speak to the heart thro' the ee;
How often the kindest and warmest prove rovers,
And the love of the faithfullest ebbs like the sea.