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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stalker \Stalk"er\ (st[add]k"[~e]r), n.
One who stalks.
A kind of fishing net.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a poacher;" also "one who prowls for purposes of theft" (c.1500), agent noun from stalk (v.1). Meaning "obsessive harasser" is from early 1990s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who engages in stalking. Originally meant a tracker and hunter or guide of game. 2 A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions. 3 Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting. 4 A kind of fishing net.
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Wikipedia
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with its screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic (1972), the film features a mixture of elements from the science fiction genre with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes.
It depicts an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" ( Aleksandr Kaidanovsky) to take his two clients, a melancholic writer ( Anatoli Solonitsyn) seeking inspiration and a professor ( Nikolai Grinko) seeking scientific discovery, to a site known simply as the "Zone", which has a place within it with the supposed ability to fulfill a person's innermost desires. The trio travels through unnerving areas filled with the debris of modern society while engaging in many arguments, facing the fact that the "Zone" itself appears sentient, while their path through it can be sensed but not seen. In the film, a stalker is a professional guide to the Zone, someone having the ability and desire to cross the border into the dangerous and forbidden place with a specific goal.
The meaning of the word "stalk" was derived from its use by the aforementioned Strugatsky brothers in their novel Roadside Picnic, making an allusion to Rudyard Kipling's character "Stalky" from the Stalky & Co. stories. In Roadside Picnic, "Stalker" was a common nickname for men engaged in the illegal trade of prospecting for and smuggling alien artifacts from the mysterious and dangerous "Zone". The Anglosphere definition of the term " stalking" was also cited by Andrei Tarkovsky.
The film has received many positive reviews, being labeled as one of the best drama films of the latter half of the 20th century, and ranks #29 on the British Film Institute's "50 Greatest Films of All Time" poll.
Stalker ( Russian: Машина желаний, lit. "The Wish Machine") is a novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky based on an early draft screenplay for the movie Stalker that in turn is based on a part of their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, published in Avrora nos 7-9.
It was translated to French by Svetlana Delmotte in 1981, as "Stalker. Pique-nique au bord du chemin". It was translated to Swedish by Kjell Rehnström and Sam J. Lundwall and published as Stalker. ISBN 91-86222-27-9.
Stalker is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's original ranger and debuted in 1982. He is sometimes called "Sgt. Stalker" on toys.
Stalker (1995) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Robert Rich and B. Lustmord (Brian Williams). It was inspired by the 1979 film of the same name by Andrei Tarkovsky.
The cover image is a photograph by the critically acclaimed landscape photographer Brad Cole. It is a work from 1988 titled Remnants of Resonance 2.
A stalker is someone who engages in stalking.
Stalker is an Irish psychological thriller written and directed by Mark O'Connor.
Stalker, also known as Exposé, is a 2010 psychological horror film directed by Martin Kemp starring Jane March, Anna Brecon and Jennifer Matter. It is a remake of the 1976 film Exposé, starring Linda Hayden, who makes a cameo appearance in this film.
Stalker is an American police procedural crime drama television series about victims of stalking and the detectives of the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit who investigate the crimes. The show ran for one season from October 1, 2014 to May 18, 2015, airing on Wednesdays for seventeen episodes and Monday for the last three on CBS as part of the 2014–15 fall television season.
On May 8, 2015, CBS canceled Stalker after one season, thereby ending the show on an unresolved cliffhanger.
Stalker (9 March 1983 – after 2002) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After failing to sell as a yearling he became a very successful racehorse as a two-year-old in 1985. He won four of his eight races that year including the Gimcrack Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes and was also placed in the Richmond Stakes and the Mill Reef Stakes. He failed to show any worthwhile form as a three-year-old and was retired from racing. He stood as a breeding stallion in Ireland and Cyprus with limited success.
Stalker is a 2016 Nigerian romantic drama film, directed by Moses Inwang and starring Nse Ikpe Etim, Jim Iyke, Caroline Danjuma and Ayo Makun. It premiered in Nigeria on 26 February 2016. It received 12 nominations and won 3 awards at the 2015 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards in the United States.
Usage examples of "stalker".
Besides, Jasper consoled himself, if there was a stalker prowling the grounds, Olivia was safer in a crowd than she was on her own down here in the office.
But all his life had been spent in the Highlands on this and that deer forest, and as a young stalker he had been picked out by Jim Tarras for his superior hill craft.
The three others set out ahead, racing in different directions, for each would travel separately to their hunt, solitariness being a necessary state for a Mohock stalker.
Snouts, Lancers, Scrabblers, Stalkers, Rattlers, Baba Yagas, Zappers, Dusters, Luggos.
Stalkers have a similar apronlike feature, but instead of fibers the apron consists of countless small, round protuberances.
And just as the first Nagual man and Nagual woman had been provided with a minimal party, they had to supply the new pair of Naguals with four female warriors who were stalkers, three male warriors, and one male courier.
Even if Skarrian stalkers climbed the walls at this very moment, Roolie would probably be just as patient with his draws.
For a moment he thought of going back, but he knew enough about Stalkers to know that there was nothing he could do.
It was they who had built the Stalkers, dragging dead warriors off the battlefields and bringing them back to a sort of life by wiring weird Old-Tech machines into their nervous systems.
Her Stalkers turn with a single movement and form up behind her, striding through thrilled party-goers to the exits.
Dr Twix can build whole armies of Stalkers, more than enough to crush any resistance from Anti-Tractionist savages.
Nearby, one of the new Stalkers had been caught by the blast and cut in half, and its legs were stamping aimlessly about and bumping into things.
She caught it, knotted it around her neck and turned to look for the fallen gun, only to find another squad of Stalkers, quite unharmed, closing in upon her from behind.
It was Hester Shaw, her hands tied in front of her, helpless and sullen and still wondering why the Stalkers had not killed her straight away.
In a hastily barricaded gallery in the London Museum, Chudleigh Pomeroy peered cautiously over the replica of the Blue Whale and saw that the squads of Stalkers advancing on his last redoubt had all stopped in their tracks, pale clouds of sparks coiling about their metal skulls like barbed wire.