rover
part of speech
noun (a rover, rovers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A rover is a vehicle that drives around on the surface of another planet or the Moon to explore it, like the Mars rovers. tree →
2) A rover is a person or animal that wanders from place to place. tree →
3) Rover is an old-fashioned common name for a pet dog, used in jokes and stories. tree →
4) A Rover Scout is an older member of the Scouts in some countries. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons about space, rovers such as Curiosity and Perseverance drive on Mars, take photos, drill rocks and look for signs of water and past life; they are robots controlled from Earth. In stories «Rover» is the dog's name and «a rover» is a traveller with no home. Phrases: Mars rover, lunar rover, a roving reporter.
examples
- The rover took photos of red rocks on Mars. tree →
- Engineers on Earth send instructions to the rover. tree →
- A message takes minutes to travel from Earth to the rover. tree →
- The lunar rover carried astronauts across the Moon. tree →
- We built a model rover out of a shoebox and bottle tops. tree →
- The old sailor had been a rover all his life. tree →
- «Come here, Rover!» called the farmer. tree →
- The rover's wheels got stuck in the sand. tree →
- Ralph the Rover walked the deck. tree →
note
Countable: one rover, two rovers. Comes from the verb «rove», meaning to wander. Names of real rovers have capitals (Curiosity, Perseverance). Fact: rovers move very slowly and cannot be steered live with a joystick, because signals take several minutes to reach Mars. Land Rover is a car brand, a name.
In the corpora
- The rover Perseverance carried a small helicopter called Ingenuity, which flew on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.
- A Mars rover drives itself short distances because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rover» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.