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Definition of Explore
1. Verb. Inquire into. "They explore whether there was a traffic accident"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
Specialized synonyms: Prospect, Google, Mapquest, Re-explore, Beat About, Cast About, Cast Around
Generic synonyms: Investigate, Look Into
Derivative terms: Exploration, Explorative, Exploratory, Research, Research, Researcher, Search, Searcher
2. Verb. Travel to or penetrate into. "Explore unknown territory in biology"
Generic synonyms: Investigate, Look Into
Derivative terms: Exploration, Exploration, Explorative, Exploratory, Explorer
3. Verb. Examine minutely. "The men explore the area for animals "
Specialized synonyms: Plumb
Derivative terms: Exploration, Exploration, Exploratory
4. Verb. Examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes.
Generic synonyms: Diagnose
Specialized synonyms: Put Out Feelers
Derivative terms: Exploration, Exploratory
Definition of Explore
1. v. t. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Definition of Explore
1. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To seek for something or after someone. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive medicine) To examine diagnostically. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand. ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Explore
1. to travel through for the purpose of discovery [v -PLORED, -PLORING, -PLORES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explore
Literary usage of Explore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1818)
"Narrative of un Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually culled I lie ...
of public interest alian that of Captain Tuckey to explore ihe river Congo, ..."
2. My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton (1905)
"CHAPTER XI An Expedition to explore Utah. The "Boy" Becomes "Bill." Old Bear
Orders us off. "Big Chief never Smokes with White Dogs. ..."
3. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Daniel Boon, who still lived on the Yadkin, though he had 1764 $ previously hunted
on the western waters, came again ( this year to explore the country, ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... store When they with torch of genius pierce \\ hich these explore The tenfold
clouds that cover The riches of the universe From God's adoring lover. ..."
5. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1834)
"N. IN the autumn of 1821 an expedition was fitted out at Woolwich, to explore
the eastern coast of Africa, the island of Madagascar, and the shores of ..."
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