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mariner

noun
🔊/ˈmærɪnə(r)/
🔊/ˈmærɪnər/
 (old-fashioned or literary)
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  1. a sailor水手Topics Transport by waterc2
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French marinier, from medieval Latin marinarius, from Latin marinus, from mare ‘sea’.

Mariner

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  1. the name of a series of flights of NASA spacecraft that went past or around other planets. Mariner 1 failed and was destroyed in flight in 1962, but in the same year Mariner 2 flew past Venus. Mariner 9 went into orbit (= a circular path in space) around the planet Mars in 1971 and took more than 7 000 photographs. Mariner 10 flew past Venus and Mercury in 1974 and again in 1975.