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wanderer

wanderer

1 9.1
A computer program that visits websites to find pages for a database
  • noun
  • /ˈwɒndərər/
  • Texting
translation icon : rastreador web
  • Bilal came over on The Wanderer.

Examples

  • I come here on a ship called The Wanderer.

    Daughters of the Dust (1991)

  • The Wondering Wanderer's blog picks for the week.

    Blog text (20)

  • Hello, Wanderer.

    The Host (2013)

  • Uranus was the first planet to be added to the seven 'wanderers' that had been known since antiquity.

    Blog text (10)

  • Maturin, Charles. Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. Ed. Douglas Grant. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1972. Print.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Publication: The Skaian Gates: Notes from an Online Wanderer (Yi? it's personal blog)

    Blog text (21)

  • The World Wide Web wanderer is responsible for indexing websites for search engines.

  • As a pioneering web wanderer, it helped create the first searchable database of the internet.

  • Developed in the early 1990s, the wanderer was crucial for organizing information online.

Synonyms

spider
vswanderer
  • Texting
10 7.0

A computer program that visits websites by itself to collect information for search engines

is broader and finds public resources for inclusion in a searchable database

Compounds

plain wanderer
  • Australian
9.9

A small Australian bird that lives in open grasslands

How Extensive

spider
  • Texting
10 7.0
wanderer
  • Texting
1 9.1
indexer
  • Specialized
1 4.9

Surface Forms

wanderer singular
wanderers plural

Morphology

wanderer = wander (semi-transparent) = wander + er

The agentive formation is regular, but the sense extends metaphorically from a person to a program, which may not be fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Wanderer is also used for a computer program because the program 'wanders' the internet to find pages, like a traveler moving from place to place. That's why a wanderer program travels across websites to collect information for a searchable database.