Surveyor
[sə'veɪə] or [sɚ'veɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures.
(noun.) someone who conducts a statistical survey.
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Definition
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Typist: Sharif
Examples
- In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1810 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the English navy, devised and introduced the system of diagonal bracing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He managed, however, to acquire some knowledge of geometry, and at eighteen entered, as assistant, a surveyor's office. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He called himself a mineral surveyor, and he traveled many thousand miles yearly in connection with his calling and his interest in the study of geology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The work showed his ingenious fancy, and perhaps determined his father to have him educated as a surveyor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Nicholas Scull, a surveyor, afterward surveyor-general, who loved books, and sometimes made a few verses. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Let them put the horse in the stable, and tell the surveyors they can come back for their traps, said Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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