probe

v.仔细调查

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
probe (noun)
1.
a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity)
2.
a) any of various testing devices or substances as
(1) a pointed metal tip for making electrical contact with a circuit element being checked
(2) a usually small object that is inserted into something so as to test conditions at a given point
(3) a device used to penetrate or send back information especially from outer space or a celestial body
(4) a device (as an ultrasound generator) or a substance (as radioactively labeled DNA) used to obtain specific information for diagnostic or experimental purposes
b) a pipe on the receiving airplane thrust into the drogue of the delivering airplane in air refueling
3.
a) the action of - probing
b) a penetrating or critical investigation
c) a tentative exploratory advance or survey
probe (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to search into and explore very thoroughly subject to a penetrating investigation
2.
intransitive verb
to examine with a probe - unmanned vehicles probed space to make a searching exploratory investigation enter
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
probe (noun)
a systematic search for the truth or facts about something
SYNONYMS:
delving, disquisition, examen, examination, exploration, inquest, inquisition, investigation, probation, probe, probing, research, study
RELATED WORDS:
quest; audit, check; checkup, diagnosis, inspection; hearing, interrogation, trial; feeler, query, question; poll, questionary, questionnaire, survey; challenge, cross-examination, going-over, grilling, quiz; rehearing, reinvestigation; self-examination, self-exploration, self-questioning, self-reflection, self-scrutiny, soul-searching
probe (verb)
1.
to search through or into
SYNONYMS:
delve (into), dig (into), examine, inquire (into), investigate, look (into), probe, research
RELATED WORDS:
inspect, sift, study, view; browse, cruise, peruse, scan, skim (through), surf, thumb (through); coinvestigate, reinvestigate
probe (verb)
2.
to go into or range over for purposes of discovery
SYNONYMS:
hunt, probe, prospect, search, skirr
RELATED WORDS:
reconnoiter ( reconnoitre), scout; disclose, discover, reveal, unearth; fathom, plumb, sound
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