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inspect
inspection
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interpretable
interpretive
microscope
parse
reinspection
reinterpret
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probe | American Dictionary

probe
verb[ I/T ]
us/proʊb/
to search into or examine something:
[ I ]Investigators are probing into new evidence in the case.
To probe something with a tool is to examine it:
[ T ]Using a special instrument, the doctor probed the wound for the bullet.
probe
noun[ C ]
us/proʊb/
a careful and detailed examination:
The probe explored allegations of corruption in the police department.
A probe is also a long, thin tool used by doctors in medical examinations or operations.

probe | Business English

probe
noun[ C ]
uk /prəʊb/us
the process of asking questions and examining facts in a situation, often in order to discover information that someone may be hiding:
corruption/criminal/federal probeAlarm bells rang around the City after the investment bank revealed it had widened its accounting probes.
a probe into sthThe fund manager was arrested following a probe into alleged corruption.
launch/conduct/open a probeThe Swiss Banking Commission is conducting a probe into possible insider dealing.
probe
verb[ I or T ]
uk /prəʊb/us
to try to discover information about a situation by asking questions and examining facts:
probe into sthHigh-end investors began to probe into the fund's performance and demanded better returns.
He says the problems prompted him as a journalist to probe deeper, even after the issues disappeared from the media.

Examples of probe

probe
The vertical displacement of this probe was detected by a linear displacement transducer.
Otherwise, no probing took place in response to misspellings.
Both the series of priming words and the probe word were presented aurally.
Comparing the signals from the four deepest probes, only small pressure differences are observed.
At least one of the probes is a species that is entirely excluded from lo domains (quenching curve indicated by asterisk).
Now, not only was the dramatic content of the written play probing the listener's intellect, but strange new sounds were stretching the imagination.
Across both probes, word type resulted in a main effect, with children from all three groups earning higher scores for verbs than nouns.
The probe reduces the local radial electric field so that the beam magnetic force predominates.
It can be equipped with different types of probes such that both electric and magnetic fields can be measured in a wide frequency range.
There might be reason to probe a little further with a surrogate decisionmaker who is refusing pain medications on behalf of a patient.
This task is believed to probe the subjects' ability to assign -roles to positions where the manipulated variable is syntactic structure.
For this reason a probe sampling plan is advised.
Indeed, for a simple probe we already (as stated) possess the technology to launch such a vehicle.
These are not seen in this case due to averaging of the gradients along the probing path of the laser beam.
In the second part, the measured densities are under estimated because of the deflection of the probe light.
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