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explorer
[ ik-splawr-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that explores.
- a person who investigates unknown regions:
the great explorers of the Renaissance.
- any instrument used in exploring or sounding a wound, a cavity in a tooth, or the like.
- (initial capital letter) Also called Explorer Scout. a person between the ages 14 and 20 who is an active participant in the exploring program sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America.
- (initial capital letter) Aerospace. one of a long series of U.S. scientific satellites: Explorer 1 (1958) was the first U.S. artificial satellite.
Explorer
1/ ɪkˈsplɔːrə /
noun
- a member of the senior branch of the Scouts Brit equivalentVenture Scout
Explorer
2/ ɪkˈsplɔːrə /
noun
- any of the first series of US satellites. Explorer 1 , launched in 1958, confirmed the existence of intense radiation belts around the earth
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Example Sentences
All they discovered were water bottles from earlier explorers.
Instead, the land claimed the lives of four of the explorers.
For the second year in a row, China has landed an ambitious robotic explorer on the moon.
That’s not only key to sustaining human life, but the hydrogen and oxygen in water could also be used as rocket fuel, making the moon a potential gas station in space that could help explorers reach farther into the solar system.
No matter how many G’s the network has, no Martian explorer will ever enjoy a real time call with Earth.
The first two videos are teasers featuring two favorite cartoon characters for young girls, Dora the Explorer and Tinkerbell.
Unfortunately, dozens of pyramids are missing their peaks thanks to an overeager, gold-seeking explorer.
Actor and explorer Michael Palin, visiting in 2001, described one elderly bookkeeper showing off his priceless wares.
The proposed Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), for example, would place a boat on either Ligeia Mare or Kraken Mare.
Ironically, the first archaeologist to explore the cave had a connection to the most legendary fictional explorer.
And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.
Passage over it is often one of the most difficult feats to accomplish which the Alpine explorer has to undertake.
These fractures often exist in very great numbers, and constitute a formidable barrier in the explorer's way.
Each step, which seems to bring the explorer of nature nearer to his object, only carries him to the threshold of new labyrinths.
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