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n. An exploratory action, expedition, or device, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region.

n. A slender, flexible surgical instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity.

n. Biology A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample.

n. The act of exploring or searching with or as if with a device or instrument.

n. An investigation into unfamiliar matters or questionable activities; a penetrating inquiry: a congressional probe into price fixing. See Synonyms at inquiry.

n. A space probe.

v. To explore with or as if with a probe: probe a wound; probe one's motives.

v. To delve into; investigate.

verb-intransitive. To conduct an exploratory investigation; search.

n. a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy

v. To explore, investigate, or question

v. To insert a probe into.

v. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

v. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

n. 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.

To examine with or as with a probe; explore, as a wound or other cavity, especially of the body: often used of searching for some extraneous object in a part or organ by means of an instrument thrust into it.

Figuratively, to search to the bottom; scrutinize; examine thoroughly into.

To prick, as a sealed can, so as to allow the compressed air or gas within to escape.

n. A proof; a trial; a test.

n. A printer's proof.

n. In surgery, a slender flexible rod of silver or other substance for examining the conditions of a wound or other cavity, or the direction of a sinus.

n. an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

v. examine physically with or as if with a probe

n. an exploratory action or expedition

v. question or examine thoroughly and closely

n. a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

n. an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

"No one on Earth knows how to communicate with the probe, but upon returning to Earth, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew learn that the probe is attempting to communicate with humpback whales, which have been extinct since the 21st century."

probe-pointed scissors   

probed    probes    probing   

research    exploration    surgical instrument   

telephonic probe    nélaton's probe   

prove    probable    probity    proof    probation   

probed    probing    probe-and-drogue   

examine   

Job    Latrobe    Tobe    globe    job    jobe    lobe    loeb    mobe    prob   

sensor    scan    monitor    satellite    device    transmission    camera    transmitter    instrument    scanner