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Vagrant vs Terraform - What's the difference?

vagrant | terraform |

As a noun vagrant

is a person without a home or job.

As an adjective vagrant

is moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

As a verb terraform is

(science fiction) to transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of earth.

vagrant

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person without a home or job.
  • * 2002 , , WIGU: Day two begins
  • Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
    Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
    Wigu: I stink.
  • A wanderer.
  • Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
  • (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
  • Synonyms

    * beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See also

    Derived terms

    * vagrancy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
  • * Prior
  • That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
  • * Macaulay
  • While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
  • Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
  • a vagrant beggar

    terraform

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (science fiction) To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1942 , date = July , first = Jack , last = Williamson , authorlink = Jack Williamson , magazine = , title = Collision Orbit , volume = 29 , issue = 5 , page = 82 , passage = He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun. }}
  • Earthscape
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