probe
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[edit] Etymology
For verb: Latin probare (“‘to test, examine, prove’”) < probus (“‘good’”).
For noun: Late Latin proba (“‘a proof’”) < probare (“‘to test, examine, prove’”); see proof. Cf. Spanish tienta (“‘a surgeon's probe’”) < tentar (“‘try, test’”); see tempt.
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probe (plural probes)
- a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measure
- Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
- an investigation or inquiry
- They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
- (game of go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
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- (game of go) yosu-miru
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used to explore, investigate or measure
investigation or inquiry
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to probe (third-person singular simple present probes, present participle probing, simple past and past participle probed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question
- If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
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to explore, investigate, or question
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[edit] External links
- probe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- probe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] Adjective
probe f.
- Feminine plural form of probo