Probe

Definition: Probe

Probe

Noun

1. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal".

2. A flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities.

3. An exploratory action or expedition.

4. An investigation conducted using a probe instrument.

Verb

1. Question or examine thoroughly and closely.

2. Examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "probe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Probe \Probe\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Probed; Probing.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Aerospace

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Environment

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Medicine

Meteorology & Standards

Mining

Physics

Post & Telecom

Public Administration

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PROBE

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Synonyms: Probe

Depth

Soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.

Experiment

Verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration); criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test.

Inquiry

Examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out.

Measurement

Span, pace step; apply the compass; Noun: gauge, plumb, probe, sound, fathom; heave the log, heave the lead; survey.

Perforator

Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

Crosswords: Probe

French (honest), German (assay, attempt, audition, pattern, practice, prob, probation, probational, proof, rehearsal, rehearse, sample, specimen, test, trial, tryoutUS), Romanian (case).

Anal probe is ready. (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch)

Ready the anal probe. (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch)

Yeah, that's the problem, you're occupying my air, anal probe. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told (references; author: unknown)

Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff (references; author: unknown)

Na probe (1970)

Alien Probe 3 (1994)

Probe (1988)

Love Probe (1987)

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References

• Probe Exploration Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Chilton's Ford Probe 1989-92 Repair Manual (Chilton's Total Car Care) (reference)

• How Dogs Came from Wolves: And Other Explorations of Science in Action: Scientists Probe 12 Animal Mysteries (reference)

• Mazda 626 and Mx-6 Ford Probe Automotive Repair Manual 1993-2001 (Hayne's Automotive Repair Manual) (reference)

• Night Probe! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Probe (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Outer Limits, Vol. 49: The Probe (reference)

• The Twilight Zone: The Lonely/ Probe 7 - Over and Out (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Tone Probe (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Replacement Probe for Polder Preprogrammed Cooking Thermometer, Wireless Remote Cooking Thermometer/Timer, and Smart Fork (reference)

• General Tools 862 3-Piece Probe Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A scientist is instructing a highschool student in the procedure of "southern blotting". Single strands of DNA are transferred onto a nitrocellulose filter, exposed to a radioactive labelled probe, which then sticks, or hybridizes, to a specific DNA sequence. These hybridized sequences will then give off a radioactive signal that can be visualized by exposing the filter to x-ray film, a procedure known as autoradiography. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Galileo Probe. Credit: NASA.

Pioneer Galileo Probe Art. Credit: NASA.

Cassini Saturn Probe Undergoes Preflight Testing. Credit: NASA.

Pioneer III Probe. Credit: NASA.

Artist's concept of a Pioneer Venus probe entering Venus' atmosphere. Credit: NASA.

Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 14 spacecraft. TheVenera 14 lander became the second Venus surface probe to transmit color imagesafter setting down on 5 May 1982. Credit: NASA.

Paul Grim (sitting) and George Peter working on heat probe package OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Deploying 20' piston corer and heat probe OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Weather Bureau DC-6 N6539C on tarmac with ESSA designator. Gust probe in foreground. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

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It might be useful to probe this man to the bottom.

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Health

Tests can also probe the characteristics of infectious germs. (references)

The newfound ability to probe our genes, however, can be a double- edged sword. (references)

In this procedure, a probe inserted in the rectum directs sound waves at the prostate. (references)

Business

The release into the New Zealand marketplace of the Ford Probe in mid-July 1994 was significant because it was the first Completely-Built-Up (CBU) car imported commercially from the United States for 30 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

One private television network has been accused of slanting its coverage of the media tax probe to support the Government. (references)

Korea

However, in the same month the International Federation of Journalists stated that the tax probe had nothing to do with freedom of the press and that there was no evidence that freedom of the press was being suppressed. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

The Market Probe, developed to assist exporters in exploring the potential of their particular market in South Africa. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

This probe was the closest scrutiny ever of the special police courts and resulted in the authorities bringing criminal charges against two court officials, although the results are not known. (references)

Cambodia

However, UNHCHR reported that there were serious shortcomings in the police investigations and in the subsequent judicial process, including a reluctance to probe possible political motives. (references)

Minorities

India

In November an unofficial probe team criticized police handling of the communal violence in Malegaon and stated that rumors spread by political parties and communal organizations were responsible for the spread of the rioting. (references)

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Expressions using "probe": aarp probe packets ♦ conflict probe ♦ coupling probe ♦ DNA probe ♦ eddy current probe ♦ Electron Probe Microanalysis ♦ emitting probe ♦ endotracheal probe ♦ Hall probe ♦ lunar probe ♦ mercury probe ♦ molecular probe ♦ Molecular Probe Techniques ♦ nucleic acid probe ♦ probe into ♦ probe scissors ♦ probe tube ♦ pyrometric probe ♦ space probe. Additional references.

Beginning with "probe": probe-based, probe-like, Probe-pointed, Probe-pointed scissors, probe-probe, probe-tagged.

Ending with "probe": clone-probe, dna-probe, four-probe, inter-probe, probe-probe, pump-probe, scalpel-probe, space-probe, telly-probe.

Containing "probe": do-probe-me.

Albanian

sondoj (sound), sondë (sound, stylet), shqyrtim (analysis, assay, canvass, check, checkup, collation, debate, deliberation, discussion, hearing, investigation, processing, scan, scrutiny, study, survey), kontrolloj (check, control, examine, go through, guard, inspect, look over, make certain, master, perambulate, peruse, ransack, review, revise, search, superintend, supervise, take charge of, take stock, verify, watch), kontroll (checkup, clutches, control, disposal, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, mastery, monitoring, restraint, search, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification), këqyr (case, examine, inspect, poke about, regard, scan, view), hetoj (enquire, inquire, investigate, look into, question, scan, study), hetim (enquiry, inquiry, investigation, perquisition, scan, study, tracer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فحص (assay, calibrate, check, check up, checking, control, examination, examine, exploration, explore, inquire about, inquire into, inspect, inspection, investigate, investigation, look into, overhaul, quiz, scrutinize, search, search for, search into, searching, see, sound, survey, test, vet, view), ‏مسبار (plumb line, sound), ‏مجس (plumb line, sound), ‏مرجاس (sounder), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), ‏تحقيق (ascertainment, come true, consummation, enquiry, exploration, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementing, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probing, quest, realization, survey, verification), ‏تستكشف, ‏سبر (exploration, explore, plumb, search, sound), ‏جس (feel, necking, palpate, palpation, paw, pet, ply, probing, touch), ‏إمتحان دقيق, ‏إستقصى (investigate), ‏إستطلع (explore, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, spy), ‏إستجواب (examination, inquest, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, investigation, question), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, 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 

сонда (auger, bore, borer, explorer, sonde, stylet, well), сондиране (drilling, exploration), сондирам (approach, explore, search), космическа сонда, проучване (examination, exploration, inquiry, inspection, investigation, piece of research, research, search, study), проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, survey, turn over, vet), изучавам (educate, examine, explore, master, read, read up, study), изследвам (dig, examine, explore, inquire, inquire into, inspect, investigate, prospect, research, scan, search, study, survey, test). (various references)

Chinese 

鑽 (an auger, diamond, enter), 试探 (Probed, Probing), 探討 (investigate), 探測器 (craft, detector), 探測 (take readings). (various references)

Czech

prozkoumat (analyse, examine, explore, go into, go through, inspect, look into, overlook, reconnoitre, scan, scrutinize, survey), vesmírná sonda, sondovat (canvass, Plumb), sonda (sound). (various references)

Danish

proevehoved, probe, udtagsrør, udsugningsrør, strålingssonde, sonde (coupling probe, probe tube, sound), lydhoved, kontrolsonde (sounding rod), føler (contour follower, detecting device, feeler, sensor, tracer). (various references)

Dutch

probe, taster (plunger, stylus, tracer(USA)), sondeerstang (sounding rod), sonde (coupling probe, probe tube, sound, sounding rod), koppelsonde (coupling probe), detector (demodulator, detecting element, detecting equipment, detector, detector equipment, head, sensing component, sensor, sensor element), buis (barrel, channel, jacket, pipe, tube). (various references)

Farsi 

نیشتر (Harpoon), کاوش (Dig, Research, Rummage, Search), غوروبررسی کردن , تحقیق (Inquiry, Quest, Research, Rummage, Scholarship, Scrutiny), جستجو (Disquisition, Hunt, Prowl, Quest, Research, Rummage, Search), اکتشاف جدید, رسیدگی (Assistance, Attendance, Audit, Consideration, Examination, Inquest, Inquiry, Puberty, Scrutiny). (various references)

Finnish

sondi (bougie). (various references)

French

sonde (probes). (various references)

German

sonde (sonde, tube). (various references)

Greek 

μετρητής (gauge, meter, metronome), δοκιμαστικό ηλεκτρόδιο, δειγματολήπτης σύζευξης (coupling probe), διερευνώ (explore, investigate, look into, prospect, ransack, scrutinize, spy), ανιχνευτής (pathfinder, scanner, scout, sensor), ανιχνευτής DNA, αισθητήρας (sensor), ακροσωλήνιο, επαφέας (contact, contact unit, contactor, stylus, switch, tracer(USA)), δοκιμαστική ακίδα, εξετάζω καλώσ, κεραία (aerial, antenna, arial, boom), βοηθητικό ηλεκτρόδιο, σόντα ανιχνεύσεως λειτουργίας δραίνων (sounding rod), ράβδος ανιχνεύσεως λειτουργίας δραίνων (sounding rod), καθετήρ (catheter), καθετήρας (catheter, probe tube, sound), καθετήρασ (catheter), καθετηριάζω, κεφαλή δοκιμής, επιμελήσ εξέταση. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחקור (delve, explore, inquire into, quest, scrutinize, search), לב�"וק (check, examine, inspect, look into, overhaul, test), חקיר�" (enquiry, examination, exploration, inquiry, interrogation, investigation, research, zeteric), ב�"יק�" (audit, check, check up, examination, exploration, inspection, overhaul, scrutiny, test). (various references)

Hungarian

szonda (searcher), próba (assay, experiment, hallmark, pilot, probation, proof, rehearsal, test, trial, try, try on, try out), minta (design, fantasy, formula, model, motif, muster, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, prill, sample, shape, standard), mérőszonda, mérőelektróda, kutasz (harpoon, searcher), hézagmérő, alapos vizsgálat (inquisition, sifting). (various references)

Indonesian

penguji (assay), pasak uji, menyelidiki (delve, investigate), menjajaki (fathom, plumb, sound out, take soundings). (various references)

Italian

sonda (drill, feeler, sonde, sound). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

プレヤデス星団 (PD, Pleiades cluster, prelude, prerelease, professional, program, program analyzer, program director, programmer, programming, proxy), 探査機 , 探査 (inquiry, investigation), 探り (probing, sounding, spy, stylet), 消息子 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"さき, た�"さ (inquiry, investigation), プローブ , しょうそくし, さぐり (probing, sounding, spy, stylet). (various references)

Korean 

조사 (Count, Examen, investigation). (various references)

Manx

broddey (goad, jab, nudge with nose, poke, prick, prickle, rouse, stir up), broddag (hormone, punch, sting, stylet). (various references)

Pig Latin

obepray

Portuguese

ponta de prova, penetrar em (immerse, pervade, pierce), sonda para feridas, sonda de localização dos tubos (sounding rod), sonda de acoplamento (coupling probe), sonda (auger, catheter, depth-gauge, explorer, lead, lead-line, plumb, plummet, sounder, stylet), sindicância (inquest, inquiry, investigation, search), tenta (tempts), sondar (bring in, delve, fathom, gage, gauge, prospect, pump, scan), antena (antenna, feeler), explorar (discover, examine, exploit, explore, flay, have out, investigate, milk, pioneer, profiteer, prospect, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, research, scan, utilize, vamp), examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discuss, enquire, examine, explore, eye, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, vet, view), esquadrinhar (dub, fish, kike, pry, rake, rake up, ransack, rummage, scan, sift), detector (detective, detector), cabeça (brain, chief, chunk, coconut, leader, nob, noddle, nut, pate, ringleader, top, topknot), aprofundar (deepen), inquérito (inquest, inquiry, investigation, question). (various references)

Romanian

sondare (feeler, searching), sondã (Bob, Derrick, lead, sound, well), sonda (bore, bottom, canvass, explore, fathom, feel the pulse, Plumb, sound), examinare (examination, inspection, observation, overhaul, search, view), cercetare (analysis, control, essay, examen, examination, exploration, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, quest, research, study, test, trial, view), cerceta atent (fathom), cap de mãsurã. (various references)

Russian 

расследование (debriefing, detection, enquiry, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitorial, investigation, perquisition, scruting), зондировать (sound), зондирование (reconnaissance), зонд (catheter, explorer, pathfinder, sound, stylet), проба (analysis, assay, audition, essay, plate-mark, prill, proof, purity, reaction, sample, sampling, specimen, standard, tasting, test, try out, tryout, try-out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proba (assay, audition, demonstration, essay, rehearsal, sample, scantling, shakedown, test, trial), pretraživati (scour, search), sondirati (sound), sonda (catheter, sound), istraga (inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, perquisition, quest), istraživanje (exploration, exploring, research), ispitivati (inquire into, interrogate, query, question, quiz), ispitivanje (assaying, debriefing, examination, inquiry, interrogation, investigation, questioning, quiz, scanning, scrutiny). (various references)

Spanish

sonda (blowpipe, bore, catheter, lead, pathfinder, Plumb, plummet, probang, searcher, sound). (various references)

Swedish

undersöka (analyse, analyze, be examined, examine, explore, follow up, inquire into, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, overhaul, screen, search, see into, sound, vet), sondera (feel, Plumb), sond (sonde, sound). (various references)

Turkish

soruşturmak (ascertain, check out, check up, enquire, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make inquiries, verify), soruşturma (checkback, disquisition, enquiry, examination, hearing, inquest, inquiries, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, quest, question, questionnaire, verification), sonda koymak, sonda ile yoklamak (drill, sound), sonda (bore, cannula, catheter, searcher, seeker, style), mil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, cannon, gudgeon, mile, milliary, pin, pintle, pivot, shaft, spindle, style, stylus, tree), iskandil etmek (sound, take a sounding), derinlemesine araştırmak (get the bottom of, Plumb, plumb line), derinlemesine araştırma, derinine inmek (fathom, get the bottom of), deşmek (dig, dig out, dig up, dredge up, exhume, incise, open up, root), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, 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, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), araştırma (ascertainment, checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, explorative, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, investigative, pursuit, quest, research, review, search, study). (various references)

Ukrainian

розслідувати (detect, enquire, inquire, investigate), щуп, хоботок (proboscis), космічна ракета, випробовувати (approve, experiment, prove, put to the test, task, tax, test, try out), зондувати (explore), зондування (overture, reconnaissance), зонд (explorer, spud, stylet [med.]). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự điều tra (enquiry, inquiry, inquisition), cái thông, cái dò. (various references)

proba. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "probe": probed, probenecid, probenecids, prober, probers, probes. (additional references)

Words ending with "probe": cryoprobe, geoprobe, microprobe, reprobe, saprobe. (additional references)

Words containing "probe": cryoprobes, geoprobes, microprobes, reprobed, reprobes, saprobes, unprobed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Probe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprobe, arobe, crobe, drobe, frobe, Krobo, phobe, plobe, Ploben, pobe, Pobee, pobo, pombe, Poreba, preb, Preben, Preble, prib, pribe, priobe, prob, probem, prober, probic, probie, probl, proble, probley, probo, probu, probz, proce, proe, profe, proie, proje, prome, prote, provbs, prowe, proze. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rebop.

-1 letter: bore, pore, repo, robe, rope.

-2 letters: bop, bro, obe, ope, orb, ore, per, pro, reb, rep, rob, roe.

-3 letters: be, bo, er, oe, op, or, pe, re.

+1 letter: bopper, probed, prober, probes, rebops, upbore.

+2 letters: blooper, boppers, potherb, preboil, prebook, preboom, probate, probers, problem, proverb, reprobe, ropable, saprobe, upborne.

+3 letters: bebopper, bloopers, boltrope, geoprobe, operable, operably, paperboy, pegboard, portable, potherbs, pourable, preboils, prebooks, prebound, probable, probated, probates, problems, provable, proverbs, reprobed, reprobes, saprobes, unprobed.

+4 letters: acrophobe, ambrotype, approbate, barhopped, beboppers, biosphere, boltropes, borescope, broomrape, bryophyte, cryoprobe, droppable, euphorbia, geoprobes, groupable, hyperbola, hyperbole, ibuprofen, paperboys, parboiled, pegboards, pepperbox, perborate, pokeberry, porbeagle, portables, possibler, potboiler, pourboire, powerboat, prebiotic, preboiled, prebooked, presbyope, probables, probative, probities, proscribe, proverbed, pureblood, reprobate, reprobing, shipborne, soapberry, subperiod, superbomb.