Palavras em English para 'exploring thoroughly'
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- examine thoroughly and in great depth
- weight with lead
- adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
- measure the depth of something
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
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- The process of exploring.
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- a careful systematic search
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
- a systematic consideration
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
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- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
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- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
- (chiefly passive voice) To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
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- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
noun
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
noun
- An exhaustive search.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
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- thorough
- generally admired
- in excellent physical condition
- appealing to the mind
- deserving of esteem and respect
- not left to spoil
- agreeable or pleasing
- not forged
- exerting force or influence
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- having the normally expected amount
- capable of pleasing
- morally admirable
- financially safe
- promoting or enhancing well-being
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
- of moral excellence
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- resulting favorably
- (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
- (colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- (colloquial) Ready.
- (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Effective.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Large in amount or size.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Right, proper, as it should be.
- (stressed form) Special, best, favorite.
- (Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Of a black person, dead or killed.
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Competent or talented.
- Healthful.
- Favorable.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
noun
- moral excellence or admirableness
- that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
- benefit
- a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes
- (countable, usually in the plural) An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
- (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
- (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- (uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
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- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- completely and absolutely (‘good’ is sometimes used informally for ‘thoroughly’)
- (informal, sometimes proscribed) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
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- (intransitive) To benefit; gain.
- (transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- (intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
- (intransitive) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- (transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- (transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
- (reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
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- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
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- (transitive) To search an area thoroughly.
- (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- (intransitive) To run with speed; to scurry.
- (transitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- (transitive) To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- (ambitransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- clean with hard rubbing
- rub hard or scrub
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- examine minutely
noun
- The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
- A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
- A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
- Diarrhoea, in livestock; scouring.
- a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
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- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
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- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
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- One who explores something
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
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- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- arising from or going to the root or source
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- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
verb
- examine methodically
- examine in order to test suitability
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- project onto a screen for viewing
- prevent from entering
- To shelter or conceal.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To fit with a screen.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
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- the personnel of the film industry
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
- (American football) Ellipsis of screen pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
- (by extension) A room in a cinema.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
verb
- make a wide, sweeping search of
- examine hastily
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- read metrically
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- examine minutely or intensely
- conform to a metrical pattern
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
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- the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- an image produced by scanning
- Of written things, a careful reading.
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
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- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
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- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
verb
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
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- The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation.
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
- The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
- The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
- the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
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- excavate the earth beneath
- deplete
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
noun
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
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- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
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- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To argue about (something).
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
- To penetrate (someone) sexually.
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- get involved in or with
- familiarize oneself thoroughly with
- put clothing on one's body
- to come or go into
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
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- (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
- (intransitive, marketing) To receive a certain response in market research.
- (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- (transitive) To search again.
- inquire into
- attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
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- question or examine thoroughly and closely
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- question closely
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- To interrogate.
- To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
- To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
- To check the health or condition of something or someone.
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- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
- To conduct an extremely thorough investigation into an aspect or aspects of a construct, to discover a deeper and/or wider understanding of it, implying that a previous investigation is known to have been inadequate, inconclusive, limited, or absent an element believed to exist.
- To carry out a subanalysis
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- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore or survey for the purpose of making a map
- depict as if on a map
- make a map of; show or establish the features of details of
- to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
- plan, delineate, or arrange in detail
- locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences
- (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
- (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
- (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- (transitive) To represent by means of a map.
- (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
noun
- a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- (computing) Synonym of associative array.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- (mathematics) A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
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noun
verb
noun
- (British, chiefly figurative, sometimes proscribed) A comb with finely spaced teeth, chiefly as a metaphorical means of making a thorough search.
- (zoology) A comb-like dental structure found in the lower jaws of certain primates consisting of long, flat front teeth with microscopic grooves, which are used for grooming fur.
adv
- At depth.
- (of flavour, colour, etc.) Richly.
- In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- So as to extend far down or far into something.
- To a deep extent or degree; very greatly.
- (in relation to sleep) Soundly; so as to be hard to rouse.
- In large volume.
- to a great depth psychologically or emotionally
- to a great depth; far down or in
noun
- A thorough understanding.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- (education) Reading comprehension.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- the relation of comprising something
- an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
noun
verb
noun
- The process of exploring.
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- a careful systematic search
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
- a systematic consideration
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
noun
- An exhaustive search.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
verb
noun
- One who explores something
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
noun
noun
- The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation.
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
- The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
- The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
- the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
noun
- A thorough understanding.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- (education) Reading comprehension.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- the relation of comprising something
- an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
noun
verb
verb
verb
- examine thoroughly and in great depth
- weight with lead
- adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
- measure the depth of something
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
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noun
adv
verb
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
- (chiefly passive voice) To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
noun
verb
- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
noun
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
verb
noun
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
verb
- (transitive) To search an area thoroughly.
- (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- (intransitive) To run with speed; to scurry.
- (transitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- (transitive) To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- (ambitransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- clean with hard rubbing
- rub hard or scrub
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- examine minutely
noun
- The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
- A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
- A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
- Diarrhoea, in livestock; scouring.
- a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- A look; a glance.
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
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noun
verb
- examine methodically
- examine in order to test suitability
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- project onto a screen for viewing
- prevent from entering
- To shelter or conceal.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To fit with a screen.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- the personnel of the film industry
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
- (American football) Ellipsis of screen pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
- (by extension) A room in a cinema.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
verb
- make a wide, sweeping search of
- examine hastily
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- read metrically
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- examine minutely or intensely
- conform to a metrical pattern
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
noun
- the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- an image produced by scanning
- Of written things, a careful reading.
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
verb
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
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adv
noun
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
verb
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
verb
verb
- excavate the earth beneath
- deplete
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
noun
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
noun
verb
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To owe money to (someone); to become involved in something unsavory.
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To argue about (something).
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
- To penetrate (someone) sexually.
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- get involved in or with
- familiarize oneself thoroughly with
- put clothing on one's body
- to come or go into
- secure a place in a college, university, etc.
verb
- (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
- (intransitive, marketing) To receive a certain response in market research.
- (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- (transitive) To search again.
- inquire into
- attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
noun
verb
- question or examine thoroughly and closely
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- question closely
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- To interrogate.
- To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
- To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
- To check the health or condition of something or someone.
noun
verb
noun
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
- To conduct an extremely thorough investigation into an aspect or aspects of a construct, to discover a deeper and/or wider understanding of it, implying that a previous investigation is known to have been inadequate, inconclusive, limited, or absent an element believed to exist.
- To carry out a subanalysis
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore or survey for the purpose of making a map
- depict as if on a map
- make a map of; show or establish the features of details of
- to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
- plan, delineate, or arrange in detail
- locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences
- (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
- (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
- (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- (transitive) To represent by means of a map.
- (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
noun
- a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- (computing) Synonym of associative array.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- (mathematics) A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
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- (British, chiefly figurative, sometimes proscribed) A comb with finely spaced teeth, chiefly as a metaphorical means of making a thorough search.
- (zoology) A comb-like dental structure found in the lower jaws of certain primates consisting of long, flat front teeth with microscopic grooves, which are used for grooming fur.
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- At depth.
- (of flavour, colour, etc.) Richly.
- In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- So as to extend far down or far into something.
- To a deep extent or degree; very greatly.
- (in relation to sleep) Soundly; so as to be hard to rouse.
- In large volume.
- to a great depth psychologically or emotionally
- to a great depth; far down or in
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- thorough
- generally admired
- in excellent physical condition
- appealing to the mind
- deserving of esteem and respect
- not left to spoil
- agreeable or pleasing
- not forged
- exerting force or influence
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- having the normally expected amount
- capable of pleasing
- morally admirable
- financially safe
- promoting or enhancing well-being
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
- of moral excellence
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- resulting favorably
- (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
- (colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- (colloquial) Ready.
- (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Effective.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Large in amount or size.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Right, proper, as it should be.
- (stressed form) Special, best, favorite.
- (Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Of a black person, dead or killed.
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Competent or talented.
- Healthful.
- Favorable.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
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- moral excellence or admirableness
- that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
- benefit
- a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes
- (countable, usually in the plural) An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
- (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
- (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- (uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
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- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- completely and absolutely (‘good’ is sometimes used informally for ‘thoroughly’)
- (informal, sometimes proscribed) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
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- (intransitive) To benefit; gain.
- (transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- (intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
- (intransitive) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- (transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- (transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
- (reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
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- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- arising from or going to the root or source
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- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions