Vagrant vs Terraform - What's the difference?
vagrant | terraform |
A person without a home or job.
* 2002 , ,
A wanderer.
(ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
* Prior
* Macaulay
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
(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
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
English
(wikipedia vagrant)Noun
(en noun)WIGU: Day two begins
- Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
- Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
- Wigu: I stink.
- Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
Synonyms
* beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See alsoDerived terms
* vagrancyAdjective
(en adjective)- That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
- While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
- a vagrant beggar