rover

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IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹəʊvə(ɹ)/

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通例複数形 廃用

(archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target. / One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad. / A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

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At the medieval fair, the archers practiced by aiming at a rover set among the trees.

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(archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.

"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.

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One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.

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.

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A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.

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A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.

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

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A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV

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(Australian Rules football) 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').

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(American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.

I went to Coach Beamer and, because we had a lot of outside linebackers, ask him if I could play rover.

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(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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(baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.

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(obsolete) A sort of arrow.

All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.

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]] rover （ canonical ）

Image Courtesy NASA （ romanization ）

JPL-Caltech （ romanization ）

rovers （ plural ）