Exploration
[eksplə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛksplə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) to travel for the purpose of discovery.
(noun.) a careful systematic search.
(noun.) a systematic consideration; 'he called for a careful exploration of the consequences'.
Editor: Sharon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries
(n.) physical examination.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Examination, scrutiny, inquiry, research, inquisition.
Checked by Delores
Examples
- Suffice it to say that when Edison went boldly out into new territory, after something entirely unknown, he was quite prepared for hard work and exploration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We had been so engrossed in exploration of the building and in our conversation that it was late in the afternoon before we realized it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Let the exploration of human need and desire become a deliberate purpose of statecraft, and there is no present measure of its possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It shares in the wonder and glory that attach to adventure, travel, and exploration. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The exploration of the glades and swamps of Florida by three men extended over a period of five months in a minute search for fibrous woods of the palmetto species. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was surely a summing of a year's exploration not less laconic than Caesar's review of his Gallic campaign. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think that possibly I can attain our end by some independent explorations of my own. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- An intelligent study of the discovery, explorations, colonization of America, of the pioneer movement westward, of immigration, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Future explorations of an indefinitely more detailed and extensive sort remain to be made. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For a long time this amused him, but finally tiring he continued his explorations. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His notes are a series of explorations of the elements of the world situation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such explorations as those of Hanno or Pharaoh Necho seem to have been altogether beyond the scope of the Roman imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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