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Definitions: Explore |
ExploreVerb1. Inquire into. 2. Travel to or penetrate into; of unknown territory, for scientific purposes. 3. Examine minutely. 4. Examine for diagnostic purposes, as of organs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "explore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Explore \Ex*plore"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Explored; present participle verb or noun Exploring.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mechanical Engineering | To follow the contours of a pattern. The terms describe the action of the tracing member(tracer or copying roller)of a copying attachment. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ExploreSynonyms: research (v), search (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Try one's fortune; (adventure); explore; (inquire). |
Inquiry | Look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul. |
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Screenplays | There's nothing left to explore! (The Truman Show; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) By late in the 21st century, the nations of the Earth were finally at peace, working together to explore and colonize the distant reaches of space. (Enemy Mine; writing credit: Barry Longyear; Edward Khmara) This is a story of tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, when men have built a station in space, constructed in the form of a great wheel, and set a thousand miles out from the Earth, fixed by gravity, and turning about the world every two hours, serving a double purpose: an observation post in the heavens, and a place where a spaceship can be assembled, and then launched to explore other planets, and the vast universe itself, in the last and greatest adventure of mankind, the plunge toward the (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) When you have to explore every nighteven the most beautiful things that you find can be the most painful. ('Round Midnight; writing credit: David Rayfiel; Bertrand Tavernier) Well, Harry and I wanted to explore the station. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) | |
Lyrics | To Explore My Body (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Caméra explore le temps: La terreur et la vertu: Robespierre (1964) Caméra explore le temps: La terreur et la vertu: Danton (1964) La Caméra explore le temps: La vérité sur l'affaire du courrier de Lyon (1963) | |
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Pictured in this laboratory setting are scientists looking at a lighted slide of proteins and analyzing it. They are wearing lab coats and studying it intently. Knowing how the genetic code relates to the proteins made by the body is an important tool for scientists in their new technology, as they continue to explore the nature of the cancer cell.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | The Maryland Science Center's new Outer Space Place offers visitors a chance to explore the ...Credit: NASA. | ||
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is allowing several teams of astronomers to explore Io ...Credit: NASA. | Explore the World with SeaWiFS at 4 kilometer resolution.Credit: NASA. | ||
![]() | Sidescan sonar system on SURVEYOR Used to explore for offshore extension of San Andreas Fault.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Recovery of sidescan sonar system on SURVEYOR Used to explore for offshore extension of San Andreas Fault.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Penguins explore snow-dunes in Antarctica.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | Hikers explore a canyon in Arizona public lands.Credit: Unknown. | |
The Agua Fria National Monument is only 40 miles outside of Phoenix. It can be accessed by taking Interstate 17 to Badger Springs or Bloody Basin Road. There are great photo opportunities and interesting places to explore.Credit: John Beckett. | ![]() | Animal behavioral paradigms used to explore the positive and negative reinforcing actions of alcohol and other drugs.Credit: NIAA. | |
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| Organ; science; television; TV; cosmic; outer space; nova; exploration; explore. | |
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Henry David Thoreau | Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring these problems which divide us. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | While they are with us, we shall explore a great deal, I dare say. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Not explore the whole, not study the whole, stop by the way, why? |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Coronary angiography (or arteriography) is a test used to explore the coronary arteries. (references) | |
Explore improved diagnostic and therapeutic technology through collaboration with bioengineers. (references) | ||
Stimulation programs can bring this valuable experience to the child who is physically unable to explore. (references) | ||
Business | Companies should explore flexible financing options with commercial banks. (references) | |
The SBA assists businesses in obtaining the capital needed to explore, establish or expand international markets. (references) | ||
The market is dominated by the French suppliers, the only U.S. smart card manufacturer known to explore the Hungarian market is Spyrus. (references) | ||
Economic History | Belgium | This has led American franchisers to explore the market in ever-greater depth. (references) |
Lithuania | U.S. companies should explore these markets for equipment and service supply opportunities. (references) | |
Malaysia | Apparently, U.S. universities are not keen to explore overseas markets, such as Malaysia's. (references) | |
Human Rights | Saint Kitts and Nevis | The Government has not taken any concrete steps to protect witnesses, judges, and jurors, although it continued to explore the possibility of a program to do so through the Caribbean Community. (references) |
Minorities | Russia | Such sentiment has led to a formal ban on "Wahhabism" in Dagestan and to overtures in the Duma to explore the possibility of a similar national law. (references) |
Political Economy | ALGERIA | U.S. technology and expertise are prized as a means to explore and exploit these resources. (references) |
Trade | India | According to experts, India and the USA should carefully explore possibilities for a free trade arrangement. (references) |
Brazil | Since February 1995, the Brazilian Government has granted concessions to private companies to explore commercially some of the activities formerly reserved to state-owned companies (electricity generation, road repair). (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe is a member of both the SADC, a 14 nation grouping that has begun to explore greater economic/trade cooperation and eventual "regional economic integration, and the 22 nation Preferential Trade Area (PTA) of Eastern and Southern Africa, which provides for reduced duties on imports from member countries. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | Explore different markets - be flexible to change from partnership to technology transfer or royalty provisions. (references) |
Uzbekistan | CS Tashkent has the goal of assisting U.S. business people with the logistical support necessary to explore business opportunities and conduct business in this young emerging market. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Through this service, the Commercial Service's experienced industry specialists will help you schedule meetings with key contacts in government and the business community so that you can market your products and services and explore investment opportunities. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Benin | Also in August, the city of Cotonou hosted a subregional conference of West African police chiefs to discuss their broad array of trafficking cases, including women and children, and to explore ways to better integrate their enforcement and interdiction efforts. (references) |
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Victoria Principal | I come from an era where I had to do it by the seat of my pants, but I've very grateful that I'm having the opportunity to mentor younger women and nurture them and see them explore areas that weren't necessarily open to me. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I am asking the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor to explore jointly methods for stimulating new industries, particularly in areas with surplus agricultural labor. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | New laboratories and centers will help our schools-help them lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As we explore the reaches of space, let us go to the new worlds together--not as new worlds to be conquered, but as a new adventure to be shared. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We must explore every reasonable prospect for meeting our energy needs when our current domestic reserves of oil and natural gas begin to dwindle in the next decade. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We, therefore, want to explore a variety of paratransit modes, various types of buses, modern rapid transit, regional rail systems and light rail systems. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're also prepared to carefully explore serious Soviet proposals. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Even as we explore this inner space in a new millennium we're going to open new frontiers in outer space. |
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| "Explore" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.77% of the time. "Explore" is used about 2,168 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 (infinitive) | 86.77% | 1,881 | 4,542 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.75% | 255 | 18,554 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.2% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "explore": explore the cause of the problem ♦ explore thoroughly. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "explore": I-explore. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
explore minnesota | 422 | explore window | 13 |
explore | 380 | dora explore.com | 13 |
explore msn | 90 | dsl explore internet sbc yahoo | 13 |
internet explore | 89 | ftp explore | 12 |
dora the explore | 52 | download explore internet | 12 |
explore passion | 41 | 6.0 explore internet | 12 |
explore mn | 28 | explore fcat | 11 |
explore louis st | 26 | enternet explore microsoft | 11 |
5.5 explore internet | 22 | 6 explore | 10 |
explore magazine | 19 | explore jesus power | 9 |
explore worldwide | 18 | explore nova scotia | 9 |
explore i invite | 17 | 6.0 explore | 9 |
explore wisconsin | 17 | explore alberta | 9 |
explore ieee | 17 | explore okoboji | 9 |
explore inter net | 16 | explore aol game | 8 |
explore minnesota.com | 16 | explore park | 8 |
as audio endeavoured explore have many visual we | 16 | explore branson | 8 |
explore the world | 16 | explore mode nethack | 8 |
enternet explore | 15 | explore update | 7 |
dial explore internet sbc yahoo | 13 | explore internet msn | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "explore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | ondersoek (examination, examine, exploration, investigate, investigation, research, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | eksploroj, zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), studioj (learn, observe, read, read up, research, search, study, survey), shqyrtoj (analyse, analyze, assay, bolt, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, peruse, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, traverse, vet, view), bëj kërkime. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحص (assay, calibrate, check, check up, checking, control, examination, examine, exploration, inquire about, inquire into, inspect, inspection, investigate, investigation, look into, overhaul, probe, quiz, scrutinize, search, search for, search into, searching, see, sound, survey, test, vet, view), قام بدراسة أولية, تحرى (detection, find), سبر (exploration, plumb, probe, search, sound), إستكشف (reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout, scout about, search), إستطلع (probe, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, spy), راد (prospect, repulsive), بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сондирам (approach, probe, search), проучвам (bottom, examine, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, survey, turn over, vet), изучавам (educate, examine, master, probe, read, read up, study), изследвам (dig, examine, inquire, inquire into, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, research, scan, search, study, survey, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 探索 (Explored, Exploring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpytovat, prozkoumat (analyse, examine, go into, go through, inspect, look into, overlook, probe, reconnoitre, scan, scrutinize, survey), probádat, posoudit (assess, evaluate, Gage, gauge, judge, review, size up, survey, weigh up, write up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | undersøge (examine, investigate, research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderzoeken (examine, investigate, research), nagaan (account, consider, esteem, examine, follow, investigate, regard, research, take into account), exploreren (examine, investigate, research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | esplori (examine, investigate, research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | rannsaka (examine, investigate, research), kanna (accredit, audit, check, check up on, examine, investigate, jug, pitcher, research, study, supervise, verify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاوش کردن (Delve, Pry), سیاحت کردن (Rubberneck, Safari, Tour), اکتشاف کردن (Prospect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tutkia (examine, investigate, research, study, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | explorer (examine), examiner (examine, to examine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | untersuchen (analyse, analyze, check, enquire into, examine, go over, inquire into, investigate, look into, pick over, pick through, probe, research, scan, scrutinize, see into, sound out, study, survey, test, to analyse, to analyzeUS, to determine, to examine, to explore, to inspect, verify), erforschen (ascertain, delve, examine, exploring, investigate, probe, prosecute, require into, research, researching, study, to explore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξερευνώ (probe, reconnoitre, scan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחקור (delve, inquire into, probe, quest, scrutinize, search), לבחון (check, essay, examine, see into, survey, test), לב"וק את "ע ין (go into the matter), לסקור (glance, inspect, look, look over, review, scan, survey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kutat (delve, hunt for, investigate, quest, rake, research, search, seek for, to delve, to explore, to ferret about, to investigate, to probe, to prospect, to quarry, to rake, to scour about), feltár (locate, to bare, to digest, to disclose, to excavate, to expand, to lay bare, to subject, to unfold, unbosom, unfold), felderít (brighten, exhilarate, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, to brighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to explore, to reconnoiter, to reconnoitre, to retrace, to scour, to scout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menjelajahi (rove, tour, traverse), mengeksplorasi, mengedari (circle around, encircle), menelusur (investigate, unravel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esplorare (probe, prospect, scan, scout, scruter, to examine digitally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탐구하십시" (delve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ronsaghey (beat for game, consult; consultation, debate, examine, forage, frisk, investigate, look into, ransack, rifle, rummage, scrutinize, scrutinizing, search, searching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maya | xawl (to explore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | utforske. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | investigá (examine, investigate, research), aberiguá (examine, investigate, research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exploreay investigar (burrow, delve, dub, enquire, examine, inquire, investigate, look for, look on, placatory, place, query, rake, rake up, research, rummage, scrutinize, search into, seek, sit on, spy, study, to investigate), explorar (discover, examine, exploit, flay, have to, investigate, milk, pioneer, probe, profiteer, prospect, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, research, scan, utilize, vamp). (various references) explora (examine, investigate, research, scan, seek), cerceta (analyse, analyze, anatomize, ask, canvass, case, consider, consult, cross-question, delve, dip into, examine, excogiate, inspect, introspect, investigate, look at, look into, look over, look through, overlook, peer, pursue, question, reconnoitre, research, screen, scrutinize, search, search into, seek, sift, sound, study, survey, test, try, visit). (various references) изучать (be ~ learned, learn, read, scrutinize, study). (various references) istraživati (enquire, prospect, quest, research), istražiti (investigate, see into). (various references) explorar (open up, pioneer, probe, scan, scout, scruter, spy out the land). (various references) utforska (espy, fathom, feel, find out, follow up, investigate). (various references) muayene etmek (check up, examine, go over, go through, inspect, sound, survey, test out), kontrol etmek (audit, check, check out, check up, check up on, choke back, choke down, command, control, govern, inspect, keep tabs on, see over, superintend, test), keşfetmek (cipher out, descry, detect, dig out, discover, find, hit off, scout, search out, study out, work out), araxtirmak (examine, investigate, research), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references) розвідувати (feel out, inquire, prospect, prove, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout), зондувати (probe), досліджувати (analyse, analyze, examine, investigate, look into, prospect, research, search). (various references) fforio (scout, spy), archwilio (audit, examine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | explorandam, explorare, explorarent, explorate, exploratorum, exploraverunt, explorent, rimor, speculantes, specularetur, speculari, speculationi, speculationis, speculator, speculatorum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Judges Chapter 1, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai parenebalon oikoV israhl kata baiqhl to de onoma thV polewV hn emprosqen louza |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nam cum obsiderent urbem quae prius Luza vocabatur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For whanne thei segedyn the cite, that before was clepid Luza, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the house of Joseph sent to explore Beth-el. Now the name of the city before was Luz. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.) |
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| Language | Judges Chapter 1, Verse 23 |
| Croatian | I pleme Josipovo uze izviðati Betel. Grad se nekoæ zvao Luz. |
| Danish | Da Josefs Hus udspejdede Betel Byen hed fordum Luz |
| Dutch | En het huis van Jozef bestelde verspieders bij Beth-el; de naam nu dezer stad was te voren Luz. |
| Finnish | Ja Joosefin heimo vakoilutti Beeteliä - kaupungin nimi oli muinoin Luus - |
| French | La maison de Joseph fit explorer Béthel, qui s`appelait autrefois Luz. |
| German | Und das Haus Josephs ließ auskundschaften Beth-El, das vorzeiten Lus hieß. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo voye kèk moun an kachèt al wè jan sa ye nan lavil la. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ditaruh oleh bani Yusuf itu beberapa orang pengintai hampir dengan Bait-el; maka dahulu nama negeri itu Luz. |
| Maori | A i tuteia a Peteere e te whare o Hohepa. Na, ko te ingoa o taua pa i mua ko Rutu. |
| Norwegian | Og Josefs barn sendte speidere til Betel - byen hette før Luz - |
| Rumanian | Cei din casa lui Iosif au iscodit Betelul, care mai nainte se chema Luz. |
| Swedish | Och männen av Josefs hus läto bespeja Betel, samma stad som fordom hette Lus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "explore": explored, explorer, explorers, explores. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "explore": reexplore. (additional references) | |
Words containing "explore": reexplored, reexplores, unexplored. (additional references) | |
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"Explore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eggsplene, emplor, emplore, esplose, exlpore, exophora, expla, Exploer, explor, exploree, explose, expsore. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "explore" (pronounced iksplô"r) |
| 4 | -p l ô" r | deplore, implore. |
| 3 | -l ô" r | floor, galore, lore. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-p-r-x" | |
-1 letter: eloper, plexor. | |
-2 letters: elope, expel, leper, loper, poler, prole, repel. | |
-3 letters: expo, leer, lope, lore, orle, peel, peer, pele, pole, pore, pree, prex, reel, repo, role, rope. | |
-4 letters: eel, ere, lee, lex, lop, lox, ole, ope, ore, pee, per, pol, pox, pro, ree, rep, rex, roe. | |
-5 letters: el, er, ex, lo, oe, op, or, ox. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-p-r-x" | |
+1 letter: exploder, explored, explorer, explores. | |
+2 letters: complexer, expletory, exploders, exploiter, explorers, metroplex, reexplore, xerophile. | |
+3 letters: exploiters, exportable, extemporal, fourplexes, reexplored, reexplores, unexplored. | |
+4 letters: explorative, extrapolate, metroplexes, overcomplex, overexplain, overexploit, phylloxerae, reexploring, xerophilies. | |
+5 letters: expressional, extemporally, extrapolated, extrapolates, heteroduplex, hypercomplex, overexplains, overexplicit, overexploits, praxeologies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 70 6C 6F 72 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .--. .-.. --- .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01110000 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x p l o r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0070 006C 006F 0072 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39908278818471 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Orthography | 25. Bibliography |
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