rover
ˈroʊvər-
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an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement -
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someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
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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. -
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(Archery) A sort of arrow. -
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(Archery) Casual marks at uncertain distances. -
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Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. -
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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." -
Rover
One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
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A robber, especially a sea-robber; a freebooter; a pirate; a forager. -
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One who roves; a wanderer; one who rambles about, or goes at random from point to point. -
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Hence A fickle or inconstant person. -
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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. -
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An arrow used by a rover. See flight-arrow. -
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An irregular or uncertain point to be aimed at; also, a mark at an uncertain or indefinite distance. -
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In architecture, any member, as a molding, that follows the line of a curve. -
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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. -
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A player whose ball is in the above condition. -
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To shoot at random, or without any particular aim. -
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To shoot at rovers; shoot arrows at other marks than the butt; shoot for height or distance.
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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
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.
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
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
The rover blithely promised to pay him back in two monthly payments. "Jane Journeys On" by
Rovere, Francis Maria della, Duke of Urbino, 153. "Henry VIII." by
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
Many a boy has gone to sea and become a rover for life under the influence of Marryat's novels. "How to Succeed" by
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
Della Rovere, see Rovere. "Lucretia Borgia" by
You know," she added as a crowning inducement, "Rover is there. "Short Stories of Various Types" by
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
Mr Meyers was now most anxious to rejoin Captain Semmes, or some other rover. "Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863" by
But he had been a rover in his boyhood himself, and so he said no more. "The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries" by
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 promise of songs that will come,
You know the music, oh, light-winged rover,
Sealed in the souls of the dumb.
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.
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.
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.
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.