survey(LOOK AT)formal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to look at someone or something
lookLook over there! A rainbow!
watchI sat by the window and watched people walking past.
glanceShe glanced around the room to see who was there.
peepShe peeped through the curtains to see what was happening.
peekHe peeked inside the box.
stareDon't stare at people like that - it's rude.
to officially visit a place or a group of people in order to check that everything is correct and legal: 视察；检阅
An official from the Department of Health will be inspecting the restaurant this afternoon.今天下午卫生部的一名官员要来视察这家餐馆。
The King inspected the troops.国王检阅了部队。
[ Toften passive ]US(UKsurvey)
If a building is inspected, it is examined carefully by a specially trained person, in order to discover if there is anything wrong with its structure.鉴定，查勘（建筑物）
Two official-looking men came to inspect the house.
She gave a little whimper as the vet inspected her paw.
Stewards will be inspecting the race track at 9.00.组织者将在9点钟检查跑道。
She seemed to be inspecting my face for any sign that I was tricking her.
The police experts inspected the crime scene thoroughly before leaving.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Analysing and evaluating
adjudication
analysable
analyse
analyser
analyst
assign
have the measure of someone/somethingidiom
inspect
inspection
interpret
interpretable
interpretive
microscope
parse
reinspection
reinterpret
reinterpretation
reinvestigate
reinvestigation
weigh

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Testing, checking and experimenting

Examples of inspected

inspected

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The five baits inspected at any given census were randomly selected from those baits that had not been previously examined.
These observations, however, both overstate and understate the impact of inspections on inspected bodies.
The model can be knowledge that is inspected and analysed by humans or a system that is embedded in an optimization system.
Traps were inspected in the early morning and fresh traps replaced as necessary.
They sold books, collected bills, arranged shipping, and inspected all the bookshops along their itineraries.
In the first and third periods there were no notes on wet-nurses who were inspected a second time.
The citation lists from all identified studies were inspected for additional studies.
To ensure uniform imbibition and pretreatment, seeds were inspected and mixed daily for the first 2 weeks and thereafter on a weekly basis.
Light treatments were inspected weekly for germinated achenes and dark treatments every second week.
After the introduction and the interview, the pharmacy was inspected by using of these indicators.
In this case we aurally inspected the stimuli to ensure that no audible distortions had occurred as a result of the rate manipulations.
We then manually inspected the outputs and classified each extracted path as correct or incorrect.
The contexts of each word to be tagged must be individually inspected for similarity with contexts of unambiguous words.
Every two weeks the heifers were weighed and clinically inspected.
The capsules were carefully inspected and weighed before and after welding, and after the run.
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