visitor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who visits someone else

   Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

   • He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.
   • "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— / Only this, and nothing more."
2. 2

   Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event

   Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

   • Belgrade knew how to show visitors a good time, thanks to its fashionable, somewhat raucous nightclub and bar scene.
3. 3

   Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

   • But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt.
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   1. 4

      A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

      • As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
   2. 5

      An extraterrestrial being on Earth.

      • 5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.
      • The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.
   3. 6

      An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.

      • Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds.
      • This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the “superior beings” of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy.
      • Though Clube and Napier’s cometary visitor was not a planet, the story is surprisingly close to that of Worlds in Collision.
   4. 7

      A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the…

      A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.

   5. 8

      The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a…

      The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

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