From en.wiktionary.org:
[Rover]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en] [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A randomly selected target.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1890 | author=w:Arthur Conan Doyle | title=w:The White Company | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w | chapter=22
|passage="By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew
Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what
men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles,
rounds, or ROVERS, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their
thumb-nails.}}
1. One who rove s, a wanderer , a nomad .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1846 | author=w:Herman Melville | title=w:Typee | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w | chapter=1
|passage=But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their
previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known
concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some
adventurous ROVER would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished
at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new
discovery.}}
1. * [en]
2. A vagabond , a tramp , an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
3. * {{ quote-song | en | year=1954 | author=w:Pat Ballard | title=w:Mr. Sandman
|passage=Give him the word, that I'm not a ROVER, and tell him that his lonely
days are over.}}
1. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
2. * SEPTEMBER 19, 2005 , Dave Lane, _Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY"_
3. *: NASA's Mars Exploration ROVER Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the ROVER 's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position
4. A remotely-operated vehicle.
5. [en] A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
6. [en] A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback , safety and linebacker .
7. * [en]
8. [en] A ball which has passed through all the hoop s and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
9. [en] The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
10. [en] A sort of arrow.
11. * [passage=All sorts, flights, ROVERS , and butt shafts.]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[randomly selected target] [trans-bottom]
[one who roves]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] ; ( _nomad_ ) [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr] , [mr]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [Mars rover] [ru] , [Moon rover] [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[a position in Australian Rules football]
- Marathi: [mr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en]. Cognate with [da] and [no], [sv], [de]. Compare the native
English word _reaver_, which is ultimately the same composition.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A pirate .
2. * [chapter=That Vice Alone is Sufficient to Make a Man Wretched]
3. A pirate ship .
4. * [passage=The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish ROVER of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl]. Equivalent to [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. robber
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |bankrover |roverheid |roversbende |rovershol |roversnest
|straatrover |struikrover |zeerover<t:pirate> }}
**** Related terms
{{col|nl |roof |roven }}
**** Descendants
- [af]
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
*** Etymology
First known attestation 881 in _The [Sequence of Saint Eulalia]_. From [fro].
The forms in _-uis-_ was very likely due to analogy with forms of [fro].
*** Verb
[fro]
1. to order [give an order]
**** Conjugation
[fro-conj-rover]
**** Related terms
- [fro]
**** Descendants
- [frm]