explorer

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Stanton even seemed glad of Max's companionship, and discussed routes and prospects with him, asking his advice sometimes; and once, when the explorer was attacked by a Soudanese maddened by the sun and Stanton's brutality, Max struck up the black man's weapon; almost before he knew what he was doing he had saved the life of Sanda's husband Why did I do it?"

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  1. noun One that explores, especially one that explores a geographic area.
  2. noun An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
  3. noun A person aged 14-20 who is a participant in the exploring program of the Boy Scouts of America.

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  • One kind of explorer takes a trek across a stretch of unknown territory and calls it exploring There is another kind of explorer, the scientific type, who spends as much as several months on a few square miles of territory; and when he has finished, there is not much left to be known about the district. —  071 - Mad Mesa
  • Ideal for the active explorer, a new graphical user interface helps personalize menus for easy operation and quickly sort through captured content. —  Sawf News - Fashions
  • - Local News: EMU history prof traces life of 19th century explorer, author, —  Augusta Free Press
  • Hopefully later versions of the SDK will update the project template and / or tooling support so that one can launch the app in the dev fabric from the solution explorer, and one cannot launch a Web Role Azure project with Cassini. more —  DotNetSlackers Latest ASP.NET News
  • Dora the explorer is growing up in order to appeal to a new audience of girls ages 5 and up, according to Mattel and Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products.
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/ɛksˈploʊrər/
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