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Wanderer

 
WordNet: wanderer
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
  Synonyms: roamer, rover, bird of passage

Meaning #2: a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
  Synonym: spider


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Wanderer or Wanderers may refer to:

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Wanderers' name is also used as the second part of the name of various other teams, including:

In ships

  • The Wanderer (slave ship), a ship involved in the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1850s
  • Wanderer (sailing dinghy), a 14-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor the biggest fleets located in the UK
  • Wanderer (whaler), a whaler hunting ship that caught up to 24 whales in the waters of the Azores between 1878 and 1924
  • Wanderer (travelogue dinghy), a 16-foot Wayfarer dinghy owned and sailed at separate times by travelogue writers Frank Dye and Lee Hughes (author)
  • Wanderer, schooner sailed by Benjamin Boyd (1796-1851), a Scottish-Australian explorer
  • HMS Wanderer, a British destroyer of World War II vintage
  • USS Wanderer, the name of several United States Navy ships

In astronomy

  • "πλανήτοι" (planētoi: wanderers) or "πλάνητες ἀστέρες" (planetes asteres: wandering stars), names given by ancient Greek astronomers to certain lights that moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Source of modern "planet".

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