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Definition: PROBED |
PROBEDImperative & past participle1. Of Probe |
Date "PROBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Crosswords: PROBED |
| Specialty definitions using "PROBED": cover gap ♦ remote sensing ♦ underground exploration. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PROBED": Probe. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They took me off into a separate room; I seen 'em takin' different people off; different ones of us off in separate rooms and put me on a big white table and uh the guy that took me in there - to examine me I guess -- he probed me and then I was in there I bet more than three or four hours, in that room, being probed and at one time or another these different ones of 'em came in, four or five or six of 'em at different times, and all of 'em probed me, uh, not all at once, you know, individually. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) | |
Clever | At least you're not being rectally probed by aliens. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Hubble telescope has probed the inner regions of Comet Hyakutake. This picture captures ... Credit: NASA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other studies at the NINDS have probed the spinal reflex function and found abnormalities consistent with the defect in reciprocal inhibition. (references) | |
Psychosocial factors related to erectile dysfunction should be probed, including specific situational circumstances, performance anxiety, the nature of sexual relationships, details of current sexual techniques, expectations, motivation for treatment, and the presence of specific discord in the patient's relationship with his sexual partner. (references) | ||
Human Rights | India | The three-member Kerala Human Rights Commission is understaffed and relatively inactive, though it has probed prison conditions. (references) |
Uganda | The Commission probed a wide range of police abuses, including abuses committed by senior police officials. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Senator, you have probed deeply into the Enron scandal and Enron's ties to certain financial institutions like Merrill Lynch, suggesting that maybe Merrill Lynch mislead investors because of its own deals with Enron. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PROBED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 64.37% of the time. "PROBED" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 64.37% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 34.48% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
as death four more probed related sars | 8 |
probed | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROBED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 试探 (Probe, Probing). (various references) | ||||
French | sondai, sondés, sondées, sondée, sondé, sondèrent. (various references) | ||||
German | untersucht (assays, examines, inspects, investigates, scans), sondierte (sounded, took a sounding). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | terjajaki (sounded out). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 시험하ëŠ" (Examined, Proved, Proven, tested). (various references) | ||||
Manx | broddit (jabbed, pierced, poked, roused, stung). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | obedpray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PROBED": reprobed, unprobed. (additional references) | |
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"PROBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprobe, pobed, Pobeda, Poreba, priobe, probem, prober, probic, probide, probie, probo, probu, procedd, proned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PROBED" (pronounced prō"bd) |
| 4 | -r ō" b d | robed. |
| 3 | -ō" b d | lobed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: bored, doper, orbed, pedro, pored, probe, rebop, robed, roped. | |
-2 letters: bode, bore, bred, doer, dope, dore, dorp, drop, oped, pore, prod, redo, repo, robe, rode, rope. | |
-3 letters: bed, bod, bop, bro, deb, doe, dor, obe, ode, ope, orb, ore, ped, per, pod, pro, reb, red, rep, rob, rod, roe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, de, do. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: pegboard, prebound, probated, reprobed, unprobed. | |
+3 letters: barhopped, droppable, parboiled, pegboards, preboiled, prebooked, proverbed, pureblood, subperiod. | |
+4 letters: approbated, beechdrops, deplorable, deplorably, deportable, panbroiled, paperboard, paperbound, pardonable, pasteboard, ponderable, pressboard, probenecid, producible, prohibited, proscribed, purebloods, reprobated, subperiods, superboard. | |
+5 letters: backdropped, bipolarized, clapboarded, disprovable, hyperboloid, paddleboard, paperboards, paperbounds, pasteboards, pressboards, probenecids, proboscides, superabound, superboards. | |
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