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Definition: Mariner |
MarinerNoun1. A man who serves as a sailor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mariner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Mariner \Mar"i*ner\, noun. [French expression marinier, Late Latin expression marinarius. See Marine.]. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | MARINER, A., traveler, albatross raiser. Gathered fame by making a voyage with some dead ones. His feat has frequently been duplicated on liners out of the regular tourist season. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are a mariner, denotes a long journey to distant countries, and much pleasure will be connected with the trip. If you see your vessel sailing without you, much personal discomfort will be wrought you by rivals. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Mariner series of spacecraft were interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus, and Mercury. The program included a number of firsts, including the first planetary flyby, the first planetary orbiter, and the first gravity assist.Of the ten vehicles in the Mariner series, seven were successful and the other three were lost. The planned Mariner 11 and 12 vehicles evolved into Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Mariner 1 and Mariner 2 - As the first spacecraft to fly by another planet, Mariner 2 was built as a backup to Mariner 1, which failed shortly after launch to Venus. The Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched on August 27, 1962, sending it on a 3½-month flight to Venus.
Mariner 3 and Mariner 4 - The Mariner 4 spacecraft gave the first glimpse of Mars at close range. Launched on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and represented the first successful flyby of the planet Mars. A sister ship, Mariner 3, was launched three weeks earlier than Mariner 4, but was lost when the launch vehicle's nose fairing failed to jettison.
- Mission: Venus flyby
- Mass: 203 kg (446 lb)
- Sensors: microwave and infrared radiometers, cosmic dust, solar plasma and high-energy radiation, magnetic fields
Mariner 5 - The Mariner 5 spacecraft launched to Venus on June 14, 1967 and arrived in the vicinity of the planet in October 1967. Mariner 5 carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus's atmosphere with radio waves, scan its brightness in ultraviolet light, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.
- Mission: Mars flyby
- Mass: 261 kg (575 lb)
- Sensors: camera with digital tape recorder (about 20 pictures), cosmic dust, solar plasma, trapped radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics
Mariner 6 and 7 - Mariners 6 and 7 were identical teammates in a two-spacecraft mission to Mars. Mariners 6 and 7 were designed to fly over the equator and southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. Mariner 6 was launched on February 24, 1969, followed by Mariner 7 on March 27, 1969.
- Mission: Venus flyby
- Mass: 245 kg (540 lb)
- Sensors: ultraviolet photometer, cosmic dust, solar plasma, trapped radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics
Mariner 8 and Mariner 9 - The first artificial satellite of Mars was Mariner 9, launched in May 1971. In November 1971, the spacecraft entered Martian orbit and began photographing the surface and analyzing the atmosphere with its infrared and ultraviolet instruments. The mission originally consisted of two spacecraft designed to simultaneously map the Martian surface, but the identical Mariner 8 vehicle was lost in a launch vehicle failure.
- Mission: Mars flybys
- Mass 413 kg (908 lb)
- Sensors: wide- and narrow-angle cameras with digital tape recorder, infrared spectrometer and radiometer, ultraviolet spectrometer, radio occultation and celestial mechanics
Mariner 10 - The Mariner 10 spacecraft launched on November 3, 1973. Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to use a gravity assist trajectory, accelerating as it entered the gravitational influence of Venus, then being flung by the planet's gravity onto a slightly different course to reach Mercury. It was also the first spacecraft to encounter two planets at close range.
- Mission: orbit Mars
- Mass 998 kg (2,200 lb)
- Sensors: wide- and narrow-angle cameras with digital tape recorder, infrared spectrometer and radiometer, ultraviolet spectrometer, radio occultation and celestial mechanics
- Mission: Venus and Mercury flybys
- Mass: 433 kg (952 lb)
- Sensors: twin narrow-angle cameras with digital tape recorder, ultraviolet spectrometer, infrared radiometer, solar plasma, charged particles, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mariner program."
Synonyms: MarinerSynonyms: gob (n), old salt (n), sea dog (n), seafarer (n), seaman (n), tar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mariner | Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew. |
Navigation | Mariner. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mariner |
| English words defined with "mariner": fascinate, Flying Dutchman ♦ grip ♦ Salt-water sailor, spellbind ♦ transfix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mariner": Ancient Mariner ♦ DNA Transposable Elements ♦ Sadder and a Wiser Man, STILTS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mariner": marinade. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mariner" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (marinate, souse, steep), German (sailor). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Marinated Mariner (1950) The Ancient Mariner (1925) Clouds of Glory: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978) Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Kennedy Receives Mariner 10 Model. Credit: NASA. |  | Mariner photos presented to President Johnson. Credit: NASA. |
 | Artist's concept of Mariner 10. Credit: NASA. |  | Mariner 9 image of the "Inca City". During the Mariner 9 mission, scientists found an unusual rectilinear structure associatedwith the south polar pitted terrain which they dubbed the "Inca City". Located near-80 degrees latitude and 64 degrees longitude, it is likely the result of wind deflationof deposits from underlying rough terrain. The "cells" in the image are about 4-5kilometers in width. Credit: NASA. |
 | This mosaic of Mercury was taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its approachon 29 March 1974. The mosaic consists of 18 images taken at 42 s intervals duringa 13 minute period when the spacecraft was 200,000 km (about 6 hours prior to closestapproach) from the planet. Credit: NASA. |  | Image of Mariner 4. Credit: NASA. |
 | MAYFLOWER mariner demonstrating use of cross-staff At Plymouth State Park, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | An ancient mariner mending his nets. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A burial at sea off the JOHN N. COBB. A mariner returning to the sea he loved. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 56. Pecoul logging sounder, invented in 1849 by Master Mariner Adolphe Pecoul of Marseille. This device was used to measure measure depths while a vessel was underway or to be used as a speed logging device. It was tested in 1850. In spite of favorable reports from numerous ship captain, it was rejected by the Ministry of the Marine and Colonies. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Samuel Butler | The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Nothing further passed between the mariner and Hester Prynne |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For, although my proper employment had been to be surgeon or doctor to the ship, yet upon a pinch, I was forced to work like a common mariner. |
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Economic History | Solomon Islands | British mariner Philip Carteret , entered Solomon waters in 1767. In the years that followed, visits by explorers were more frequent. (references) |
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| "Mariner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.44% of the time. "Mariner" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 53.44% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (proper) | 32.06% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 14.5% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mariner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mariner | Last name | 400 | 22,088 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Continental Mariner Investment Company Limited | USA | First Mariner Bancorp |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "mariner": Master mariner. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mariner": mariner-like. | |
Ending with "mariner": Ancient-mariner, master-mariner, pre-mariner. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mariner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | marinar (gob, hand, reefer, sailor, seafarer, seaman), detar (hand, Jack, marine, maritime, nautical, naval, sailor, sea, seafarer, seafaring, seagoing, seaman, tar). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاح (boatman, navigator, sailor, salt, seafarer, seaman, tar), النوتي (boatman), بحار (gob, man of arms, navigator, rating, sailor, sea man, seafarer, seaman, seasickness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | моряк (flatfoot, hearty, jolly, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swab, tar, tarpaulin). (various references) | |
Chinese | 水手 (sailor, seaman). (various references) | |
Czech | námořník (jack tar, rating, sailor, seafarer, seaman). (various references) | |
Danish | mariner. (various references) | |
Dutch | zeeman (sailor). (various references) | |
Finnish | merenkulkija (navigator, seafarer). (various references) | |
French | marin (marine, maritime), navigateur maritime. (various references) | |
German | Seemann (navigator, sailor, seaman), Schiffer (bargee, boatsman, sailor, skipper, skippers). (various references) | |
Greek | ναύτησ (bluejacket, gob, privateer, sailor, seaman, tar), ναυτικόσ (marine, maritime, nautical, naval, seaman), ναυτιλιακός δορυφόρος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלח (sailor, seafarer, seaman), יור" ים (sailor, seafarer, seaman), ספן (deck hand, sailor, water man). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengerész (gob, marine, matelot, navigator, ordinary seaman, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, swiss admiral, tar). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelaut (sailor). (various references) | |
Italian | marinaio (Jack, sailor, seaman, skipper). (various references) | |
Korean | 원 (sailor, seaman, Seamen). (various references) | |
Manx | mooiragh (dune, estuary, maritime), marrinagh (deckhand, sailor, seafarer, seafaring, seaman), lught yn aarkey (seafarers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arinermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | marinheiro (bluejacket, boot, gob, hand, navigating officer, navigator, oil tar, sailor, seafarer, seaman, tar, tarpaulin), navegador marítimo. (various references) | |
Romanian | marinar (blue, Jack, navigator, sailor, seafaring man, seaman). (various references) | |
Russian | моряк (sailor, seafarer, seaman, seamen), матрос (deckhand, handy man, jack tar, liberty man, sailor, seaman). (various references) | |
Scottish | maraiche (sailor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mornar (deckhand, jack, sailor, seaman). (various references) | |
Spanish | marino (marine, sailor, sea), marinero (bluejacket, Jack, man, rating, sailor, seafarer, seafaring, seagoing, seaman, tar), navegante marítimo. (various references) | |
Swedish | sjöman (hand, Jack, sailor, seaman, tar). (various references) | |
Turkish | gemici (bluejacket, gob, jack tar, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seaman, tar), denizci (gob, krooboy, navigator, sailor, seaman, tar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | моряк (blue, gob, sailer, sailor, seafarer, seaman), мотрос. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuỷ thủ thuyền trưởng t u buôn. (various references) | |
Welsh | morwr (sailor, seaman), mordwywr (sailor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nautae, nautas, nautis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mariner": mariners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mariner": submariner. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mariner": submariners. (additional references) | |
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"Mariner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amacrine, Amrinder, Arinori, kaminer, Macindeor, macrandra, madrine, magine, mainier, Marandel, marandet, marianum, Marien, marige, Marinair, Marinaro, marinera, Marinere, Marinero, marinet, Marinker, marinum, Marmier, marner, maronii, Martinaro, Maryneer, mawine, mcriner, Meringer, Mesrine, Mohinder, Morgner, Morier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mariner" (pronounced me"runer) |
| 4 | -r u n er | coroner, foreigner. |
| 3 | -u n er | bargainer, Commissioner, commoner, conditioner, confectioner, examiner, executioner, Falconer, fastener, freshener, gardener, hardener, laminar, listener, milliner, oftener, opener, parishioner, pensioner, petitioner, practitioner, prisoner, probationer, questioner, reasoner, softener, stationer, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, vacationer, Waggoner, Wagoner. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: airmen, marine, remain. | |
-2 letters: aimer, airer, amine, anime, armer, inarm, minae, miner, namer, ramen, ramie, rearm, reman, reran, rimer. | |
-3 letters: airn, amen, amie, amin, amir, earn, emir, main, mair, mane, mare, mean, mien, mina, mine, mire, name, near, nema, rain, rami, rani, rare, ream, rear, rein, rime. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, air, ami, ane, ani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: mariners, rearming. | |
+2 letters: embarring, margarine, prearming, rainmaker, reframing, remainder, remarking, repairman, repairmen, reprimand, rewarming, unmarried. | |
+3 letters: antimerger, antireform, charminger, cinerarium, earmarking, forearming, freemartin, grangerism, harmonizer, intermarry, intermural, ironmaster, malingerer, margarines, margravine, nonadmirer, normalizer, praemunire, prewarming, printmaker, proseminar, rainmakers, randomizer, redreaming, remainders, remarrying, reprimands, retransmit, ringmaster, submariner, terminator, triggerman, unmarrieds, weimaraner. | |
+4 letters: amenorrheic, arbitrament, arraignment, chiromancer, craniometry, ferrimagnet, foraminifer, freemartins, gendarmerie, gormandizer, grangerisms, greenmailer, harmonizers, impregnator, infirmaries, intradermal, ironmasters, madreporian, malingerers, margravines, menorrhagia, mercenaries, mercenarily, mercurating, mercuration, merrymaking, mineralizer, misaverring, nonadmirers, normalizers, overwarming, pericranium, praemunires, preliminary, preromantic, preterminal, printmakers, proseminars, randomizers, reaffirming, recriminate, reembarking, reformation, refrainment, rehammering, remaindered, remarketing, remastering, remeasuring, remigration, renormalize, reprimanded, retransmits, ringmasters, rudimentary, streamliner, submariners, terminators, trampoliner, transmarine, transmitter, ultramarine, weimaraners. | |
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