Inspection
[ɪn'spekʃn] or [ɪn'spɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a formal or official examination; 'the platoon stood ready for review'; 'we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator'.
Editor: Melinda--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Examination, scrutiny, investigation.[2]. Superintendence, oversight.
Inputed by Hodge
Examples
- Altogether they were very beautiful, but I fear that I did not regard them with a particularly appreciative eye on this, my first inspection of them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This exquisite painstaking will be seen still more in the barrel-inspection department, to which we will go now. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Come to me with the books for periodical inspection as usual, at eight on Monday morning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All records had been heretofore traced for visual inspection only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- How many brides go to the altar with hearts that would bear inspection by the men who take them there? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Our inspection was not wasted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You must be kept under inspection. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How was she to bare that timid little heart for the inspection of those young ladies with their bold black eyes? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By the use of the assembling line, better inspection is possible, than where one or two men assemble the entire motor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were no flourishes, but the individual letters would not bear close inspection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the early part of 1881 there was sent from Paris to Glasgow a so-called box of electric energy for inspection and test by Sir William Thomson, the eminent electrician. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Edited by Hilda