explorer

See also: Explorer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Latin plōrō
Latin explōrōder.
Middle French explorerder.
English explore
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-os?
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-so-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-āsijos
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
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Latin -ārius
Old French -ierbor.
Middle English -er
English -er
English explorer

    From explore + -er.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

    Noun

    One end of a dental explorer.

    explorer (plural explorers)

    1. One who explores something
      • 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128:
        Sachs tries to remember how it felt not to walk around with this knot in his gut. He longs for his old lab in Connecticut, where the world was made of mathematics, energy, and atomic cascades, and he was its explorer. He has no business in these political orders of magnitude, where erroneous loyalties can get your brain spattered over hotel bedrooms.
    2. A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
      • 1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586:
        The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia.
      • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:
        Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.
    3. Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
      Coordinate term: scaler
    4. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
      • 2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise:
        For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.

    Derived terms

    Translations

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    See also

    French

    Etymology

      Learned borrowing from Latin explōrāre.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      explorer

      1. to explore

      Conjugation

      Conjugation of explorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
      infinitive simple explorer
      compound avoir + past participle
      present participle or gerund1 simple explorant
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɑ̃/
      compound ayant + past participle
      past participle exploré
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/
      singular plural
      first second third first second third
      indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
      (simple
      tenses)             		present explore
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explores
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explore
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explorons
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɔ̃/       		explorez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/       		explorent
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/
      imperfect explorais
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/       		explorais
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/       		explorait
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/       		explorions
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁjɔ̃/       		exploriez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁje/       		exploraient
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/
      past historic2 explorai
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/       		exploras
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/       		explora
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/       		explorâmes
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁam/       		explorâtes
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁat/       		explorèrent
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛʁ/
      future explorerai
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁe/       		exploreras
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁa/       		explorera
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁa/       		explorerons
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/       		explorerez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁe/       		exploreront
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
      conditional explorerais
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/       		explorerais
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/       		explorerait
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/       		explorerions
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/       		exploreriez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁje/       		exploreraient
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
      (compound
      tenses)             		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
      pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
      past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
      future perfect future of avoir + past participle
      conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
      subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
      (simple
      tenses)             		present explore
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explores
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explore
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		explorions
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁjɔ̃/       		exploriez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁje/       		explorent
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/
      imperfect2 explorasse
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/       		explorasses
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/       		explorât
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/       		explorassions
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/       		explorassiez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sje/       		explorassent
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/
      (compound
      tenses)             		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
      pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
      imperative – tu – nous vous –
      simple — explore
      /ɛk.splɔʁ/       		— explorons
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɔ̃/       		explorez
      /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/       		—
      compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
      1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
      2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
      past historic → present perfect
      past anterior → pluperfect
      imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
      pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

      (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      • Mauritian Creole: explore

      Further reading

      Latin

      Verb

      explōrer

      1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of explōrō

      Middle French

      Etymology

        Latin explōrō

        Verb

        explorer

        1. to explore

        Conjugation

        • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
        Conjugation of explorer
        infinitive simple explorer
        compound avoir + past participle
        present participle1 or gerund2 simple explorant
        compound present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
        past participle exploré
        singular plural
        first second third first second third
        indicative ie (i’) tu il, elle nous vous ilz, elles
        (simple
        tenses)                 		present explore explores explore explorons explorez explorent
        imperfect explorois, exploroys explorois, exploroys exploroit, exploroyt explorions, exploryons exploriez, exploryez exploroient, exploroyent
        past historic explora exploras explora explorasmes explorastes explorerent
        future explorerai, exploreray exploreras explorera explorerons explorerez exploreront
        conditional explorerois, exploreroys explorerois, exploreroys exploreroit, exploreroyt explorerions, exploreryons exploreriez, exploreryez exploreroient, exploreroyent
        (compound
        tenses)                 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
        pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
        past anterior past historic of avoir + past participle
        future perfect future of avoir + past participle
        conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
        subjunctive que ie (i’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ilz, qu’elles
        (simple
        tenses)                 		present explore explores explore explorons explorez explorent
        imperfect explorasse explorasses explorast explorassions explorassiez explorassent
        (compound
        tenses)                 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
        pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
        imperative – tu – nous vous –
        simple — explore — explorons explorez —
        compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
        1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
        2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).
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