Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that explores, especially one that explores a geographic area.
- noun An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
- noun A person aged 14–20 who is a participant in the exploring program of the Boy Scouts of America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which explores: oftenest applied to a geographical worker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
explores something - noun A person who by means of
travel (notably anexpedition ) searches out new information. - noun Any of various
hand tools , withsharp points , used indentistry . - noun computing, graphical user interface A visual representation of a
file system etc. through which theuser can navigate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a commercial browser
- noun someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Running these online application are not even safe as Internet explorer is an heaven for hackers.
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The same with a returning explorer from the polar regions, or the latest literary or artistic success.
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I used to use it all the time; it even makes it obvious in explorer which files are links, and provides simple context menu entries to create and manipulate links. planetarian
Move Files Without Breaking Stuff | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist and explorer, is considered by many to be the world's first ecologist.
Our Thirst for Oil: A Deeper Dive Michael Totty 2010
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I think time machine vs system restore/shadow explorer is more equivilent.
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Employment market explorer -- Employment Market explorer is tool designed to help people understand local employment market, giving them a chance to compare local, regional and state unemployment rates and analyze the labor market dynamics.
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But a space explorer is a solitary agent, working alone to uncover the mysteries of the universe.
The Conquest of Space, and Other Dreams « A Fly in Amber 2010
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Steve J. Scearce and Andy Scearce are writing two separate sci-fi blogs that represent each end of a story arc, in which a deep-space explorer from the future is sending back information to an Antarctica-based radio astronomer in present day.
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Employment market explorer -- Employment Market explorer is tool designed to help people understand local employment market, giving them a chance to compare local, regional and state unemployment rates and analyze the labor market dynamics.
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For example, if I drag drop files in explorer, do these file copy programs take over?
KillCopy Speeds Up Disk Transfers And Securely Deletes Files | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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