Probe
[prəʊb] or [prob]
Definition
(noun.) an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity.
(noun.) an exploratory action or expedition.
(noun.) a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities.
(noun.) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; 'there was a congressional probe into the scandal'.
(verb.) question or examine thoroughly and closely.
(verb.) examine physically with or as if with a probe; 'probe an anthill'.
Inputed by Agnes--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
(v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.
(n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Scrutinize, examine, search, sound, explore, sift, look into.
Typed by Aldo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore
ANT:Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss
Typist: Portia
Definition
n. a proof or trial: a long thin instrument for examining a wound &c.: that which tries or probes.—v.t. to examine with or as with a probe: to examine thoroughly.—n.pl. Probe′-sciss′ors scissors used to open wounds the blade having a button at the end.
Typed by Emile
Examples
- It is hard in you to probe me with that remark. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I decided, as a useful test, to probe her on the subject of her marriage-engagement to Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Well, Mr. Pickwick, sir, I wouldn't probe your feelings for the world. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yet if you probe those interpretations there is no escaping the conclusion that they rest upon some notion of what man is like. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Wot we rekvire, sir, is a probe o' this here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then she looked searchingly at Ursula, as if to probe her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lacerations of the scalp (he probed--Does that hurt? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have no doubt, indeed, that she probed the Doctor's wound without knowing it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Probing was unsatisfactory, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He would not drop the work, and while highly appreciative of the proposed honor, let it go by rather than quit for a week or two the stern drudgery of probing for the fact and the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Sir Leicester sits like a statue, gazing at the cruel finger that is probing the life-blood of his heart. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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