probe
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)probes, probed, probing
- question or examine thoroughly and closelySynonyms: examineMore general investigate, look intoMore specific hear, investigate, re-examine
- examine physically with or as if with a probe“probe an anthill”Synonyms: dig intopoke intoMore general penetrate, perforateMore specific gutter
Noun (4)probes
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities“there was a congressional probe into the scandal”Synonyms: investigationType of inquiry, enquiryKinds fishing expedition
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavitiesType of surgical instrument
- an exploratory action or expeditionType of exploration
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavityType of research
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Noun space probe
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. probare to try, examine. See Prove.
1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.
2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. John Dryden
The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown.— Henry Hallam
Surgery 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. Bartholomew. Parr
Probe scissors, or Probe-pointed scissors Surgery, scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Richard Wiseman
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
An object-oriented logic language based on ObjVlisp.
["Proposition d'une Extension Objet Minimale pour Prolog", Actes du Sem Prog en Logique, Tregastel (May 1987), pp. 483-506].