Survey

Definition: Survey

Survey

Noun

1. A detailed critical inspection.

2. Short descriptive summary (of events).

3. The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited".

Verb

1. Consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting".

2. Look over in a comprehensively, inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates".

3. Keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing".

4. Hold a review (of troops).

5. Make a survey of; for statistical purposes.

6. Plot a map of (land).

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

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

Aerospace

Archeological

Avian

Census

Economics

Finance

Fine Arts

Food & Agriculture

Health

Mining

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Survey

Choice

Preference, prelation, opinion poll, survey; predilection; (desire).

Experiment

Poll, survey, opinion poll.

Epidemiological survey, retrospective analysis, retrospective survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis; statistical analysis.

Measurement

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

Noun: measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning; (numeration); gauging; Verb: horse power.

Crosswords: Survey

You are master of all you survey. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Survey said! (Family Feud; writing credit: David Nobbs)

The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population. (references; author: unknown)

In a recent survey, what did Americans reveal was their favorite smell? Banana. (references; author: unknown)

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Eurasian insectivores and tree shrews : status survey and conservation action plan (reference)

• The Geology and Petrology of Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii: A Study of Postshield Volcanism (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1557) (reference)

• Bypasses and the juggernaut : fact and fiction : a comprehensive survey of bypass provision in England and Wales, with particular reference to heavy lorry growth (reference)

• Cyclopoid and Harpacticoid Copepods of the Laurentian Great Lakes (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series) (reference)

• Epidemiology of Psychogenic Disorders: The Manheim Study Results of a Field Survey in the Federal Republic of Germany (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Vital And Health Statistics : Series 10-Data From The Natl Health Survey (reference)

• Academic Practice Faculty Compensation And Production Survey (reference)

• Scottish Accommodation Occupancy Survey - All 4 Surveys (reference)

• Acme Survey On Fee Arrangements Compensation And Employee Benifits (reference)

• Actuarial Student Salary Survey Processing Fee (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pre-Purchase Survey (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Alienation Index Survey (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• LANDWARE INC Zagat Survey Restaurant and Nightlife Guide 2002 (PalmOS) (reference)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bar graph showing serum cotinine levels among persons aged 4 years and above--United States, third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991. Tobacco. Credit: CDC.

A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses ... Credit: NASA.

A survey of galaxy clusters by the Hubble telescope has found what could be some of the most ... Credit: NASA.

Medium deep survey image of irregular and peculiar galaxies. Credit: NASA.

Deep survey image of spiral and elliptical galaxies. Credit: NASA.

San Francisco, California Survey by Sub-Assistant Augustus F. Rodgers, 1852 Topographic Survey T-352 Rodgers was the brother of naval officer John Rodgers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Point Reyes, California Survey by Aid James S. Lawson, 1852-1853 Topographic Survey T-403. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Survey launch on FAIRWEATHER at sunset while anchored in Wide Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Giant sandwaves as seen from NOAA helicopter during SHOALS Lidar survey. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Leo Attungowruk and wife standing, Warren Neokok and wife sitting. The men helped with the survey work. At Point Lay Village. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Should the Czecho-Slovak State, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State or Roumania, with the authorisation of or under mandate from the International Commission, undertake maintenance, improvement, weir, or other works on a part of the river system which forms a frontier, these States shall enjoy on the opposite bank, and also on the part of the bed which is outside their territory, all necessary facilities for the survey, execution and maintenance of such works. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

OF course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through.

Come, noble gentlemen, Let us survey the vantage of the ground.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Evaluation of the key areas reviewed during the survey. (references)

About 10 million had used the drug in the month before the survey. (references)

Summary of Findings from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. (references)

Business

This survey is funded by the NatWest Bank and undertaken by Business Development Research Consultants. (references)

It also undertakes shielding effectiveness testing to US MIL-STD-285 and site ambient electromagnetic survey. (references)

The biennial event is ranked the world's top air show for developing new business by an independent U.S. survey. (references)

Children

Peru

The INEI survey showed that an estimated 41 percent of parents abuse their children. (references)

Nicaragua

A 1999 survey by the NGO Casa Alianza reported that of 520 children, 504 admitted to using drugs, usually glue. (references)

Ukraine

An October 2000 survey by the UNICEF found that 38 percent of the children it polled had suffered some form of violence. (references)

Civil Liberties

Chad

The World Refugee Survey stated that nearly 50,000 Chadians were refugees (more than 40,000 in Cameroon, 5,000 in the Sudan, an undetermined number in the CAR, and 3,000 in Nigeria as of the end of 2000). The Government adheres to the principles of the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; however, these principles are not incorporated into the law. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

Communist North Korea: A Bibliographic Survey. (references)

Kenya

Sources: Economic Survey, Central Bank of Kenya. (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

A survey during the year by the Latin American Corporation for Development revealed that 54 percent of judges believed that other judges were corrupt. (references)

Colombia

The Superior Judicial Council estimated based on a 1997 survey that 63 percent of crimes go unreported, and that 40 percent of all reported crimes go unpunished. (references)

Congo

A survey of 2,000 persons conducted by the police in August and September indicated that, of the 81 percent who had contact with the police, more than 65 percent were dissatisfied with their treatment. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

A 1993 survey indicated that 14.25 percent of Australian land is owned or controlled by Aboriginal people, according to the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group. (references)

Minorities

Ireland

During the year, a survey sponsored by an NGO found that 78 percent of respondents reported having experienced racism. (references)

Liechtenstein

A 1999 government survey of 700 young persons indicated that approximately 20 percent of youths expressed ambivalence toward or sympathy for extremist views, while 4 percent supported extremist views. (references)

Political Economy

PAKISTAN

Many observers believe this survey understates the true dimensions of the problem. (references)

Lithuania

At year's end, unemployment was 12.9 percent (16.5 percent according to a labor market survey conducted in May). (references)

PORTUGAL

The group collaborated with the ILO in 1998 and 1999 in a first of its kind survey to try to ascertain the extent of child labor in Portugal. (references)

Political Rights

Congo

A public opinion survey indicated that 52 percent of women believed that men opposed female participation in political life. (references)

Trade

France

This category includes market survey insurance, medium-term credit insurance on large-scale projects and capital goods, investment risks in foreign countries, and exchange rate guarantees on major contracts or large amounts. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Participants in a 1998 survey of 160 Afghan women reported little or no access to health care in Kabul. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

In one survey, 84 percent of the children suffered from minor infections. (references)

Namibia

The survey also documented that of those children classified as working, 80 percent continued to attend school. (references)

Pakistan

Only the Government and exporters regard the ILO survey as an accurate measurement of the incidence of child labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "survey": aerial survey ♦ agricultural structure survey ♦ air survey ♦ air survey photography ♦ analytic survey ♦ annual capital expenditures survey ♦ artillery survey control point ♦ assets and expenditures survey ♦ boundary and annexation survey ♦ brief survey ♦ building permits survey ♦ cadastral survey ♦ chemical survey ♦ Coast and Geodetic Survey ♦ company organisation survey ♦ company organization survey ♦ condition survey ♦ consumer expenditures survey ♦ contraceptive prevalence survey ♦ damage survey ♦ descriptive survey ♦ easy to survey ♦ enumeration survey ♦ European Survey of Information Society Projects and Actions ♦ exploratory survey ♦ field survey ♦ fishery survey ♦ Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope ♦ general and annual survey processing ♦ geodetic survey ♦ geological survey ♦ gravity survey ♦ health interview survey ♦ Household Budget Survey ♦ manpower management survey ♦ market survey ♦ metes and bounds survey ♦ ordnance survey ♦ ordnance survey map ♦ quantity survey ♦ quarterly apparel survey ♦ radiological survey ♦ random sample survey ♦ register of the survey of lands ♦ repeated survey ♦ retail inventory survey ♦ retail trade survey ♦ River Habitat Survey ♦ survey mark ♦ survey of construction ♦ survey of dogs ♦ survey of income and program participation ♦ survey of manufacturers'shipments,inventories,and orders ♦ survey special ♦ survey taker ♦ target area survey base ♦ Trigonometrical survey ♦ truck inventory and use survey ♦ valuation survey ♦ Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. Additional references.

Beginning with "survey": survey-based, survey-data, survey-making, survey-style, survey-type, survey-valuation, survey-work.

Ending with "survey": re-survey.

Albanian

studioj (explore, learn, observe, read, read up, research, search, study), studim (learning, prep, project, reconnaissance, research, search, studies, study, surveying, tirocinium, treatment), shqyrtim (analysis, assay, canvass, check, checkup, collation, debate, deliberation, discussion, hearing, investigation, probe, processing, scan, scrutiny, study), vështroj (eye, gaze round, look, look on, regard, see, sight, take a look at, trace, watch), vështrim i përgjithshëm (bird's eye view), rilevim, raport i inspektimit të ndërtesës, plan (blueprint, conception, delineation, design, device, dodge, draft, draught, idea, map, outline, plan, plane, plat, program, programme, project, Rede, schedule, scheme, syllabus, target), inspektoj (inspect, review, visit), ekspertizë (expertise), analizoj (analyse, analyze, assay, break down, dissect, sift, take stock, test), analizë (analysis, assay, dissection, test). (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, probe, quiz, scrutinize, search, search for, search into, searching, see, sound, test, vet, view), ‏مسح الأراضي, ‏مسح (clean, extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, swab, sweep, wipe, wiping), ‏نظرة عامة (bird's eye view, preview), ‏قام بدراسة, ‏تفقد (perambulate, visit, visitation), ‏تحقيق (ascertainment, come true, consummation, enquiry, exploration, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementing, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probe, probing, quest, realization, verification), ‏زيارة تفقدية, ‏عاين (observe, sample), ‏إستعراض (demo, review), ‏دراسة (combine harvester, contemplation, etude, memoir, project, research, schooling, study, treatise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

земемерски план, измервам (measure), изследвам (dig, examine, explore, inquire, inquire into, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, research, scan, search, study, test), изследване (enquiry, examination, exploration, inquiry, investigation, research, scan, search, study, test), инспектирам (inspect, perambulate, visit), инспекция (inspection, inspectorate, round, visit), данъчен участък, проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, turn over, vet), топографски институт, земемерска снимка, земемерско измерване, обзор (view), общ преглед (conspectus), оглеждам (look over), отчет на направеното проучване, правя земемерна снимка на. (various references)

Chinese 

調查 (inquiry, investigation, poll, to investigate, to survey), 測量 , 勘测 (Surveyed, surveying). (various references)

Czech

znalecký posudek (expert evidence), zemìmìřièský prùzkum, vymìřovat (span), vymìřit (admeasure, assess, mete out), topografický plán, prozkoumat (analyse, examine, explore, go into, go through, inspect, look into, overlook, probe, reconnoitre, scan, scrutinize), posoudit (assess, evaluate, explore, Gage, gauge, judge, review, size up, weigh up, write up), přehled (cadastre, compendium, digest, outline, statement, summary, synopsis, table, view), přehlédnout (look over, overlook, revise), odhadnout (appraise, assess, calculate, estimate, Gage, gauge, make, measure, tax), dozor (charge, control, inspection, supervision, surveillance, watch), anketa (questionnaire). (various references)

Danish

syn (appearance, aspect, look, sight, view), undersøgelse (examination, exploration, investigation, research, test), tilsyn (supervision), rundspørge, prospektering (exploration, prospecting, searching), opmaaling (survey of land, surveying), inspektion (inspection), efterforskning (exploration, prospecting, searching), besigtigelse. (various references)

Dutch

survey (fishery survey), prospectie (exploration, prospecting, searching), overzicht (abridgement, abstract, resumé, summary, summery), overz. (surv.), opsporing (acquisition, exploration, prospecting, searching), opneming (intake), onderzoek (examination, exploration, investigation, research, test), keuring (censor, examination, inspection, investigation, test), inspectie (inspection), enquête (inquiry, investigation). (various references)

Farsi 

پیمودن (Mete, Pace, Run, Traverse, Wend, Wing), پیمایش (Padding), ممیزی کردن (Verify), ممیزی (Audit), مساحی کردن , مطالعه مجمل , نقشه برداری (Topography), زمینه یابی , بازدیدکردن (Reconnoiter, Review), بازدید (Review, Revision, Visit), براورد (Assessment, Calculation, Estimate), بررسی کردن (Peruse, Study), بررسی (Scrutiny), بردید. (various references)

Finnish

katsastus (inspection). (various references)

French

levé, enquête. (various references)

German

vermessung (measurement, surveying), untersuchung (assay, check, checkup, enquiry, examination, exploration, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, probe, probing, prosecution, research, scrutiny, sounding, study, test, trial, verification), Umschau (magazine program, review), erhebung (census, elatedness, elevation, ennoblement, enquiry, exaltation, imposition, inquiry, investigation, levy, levying, mutiny, raising, revolt, rise, rising, upheaval, uplift, uprising), begutachten (assess, censure, criticize, examine, eye up, give expert advice about, have a look at, judge, to examine, to survey). (various references)

Greek 

επισκόπηση (profile), τοπογράφηση (surveying). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"י�"�" (fitting, measure, measurement, mensuration), מסקר (parade, review), לבחון (check, essay, examine, explore, see into, test), לסקור (explore, glance, inspect, look, look over, review, scan), תסקיר (report, review), חקר (enquiry, examination, research), �"תוי�" (indication, marking), סיור תצפית, סקיר�" (glance, look, review), סקור (coverage, glance, look, outlook, review), סקר (exploration, review). (various references)

Hungarian

szemle (insp., inspection, muster, parade, review, supervision, visitation), felmérés (measurement, mensuration, summing up, surveying, weighing), áttekintés (conspectus, once-over, outline, overview, résumé, review, scope, summary, synopses, synopsis, traversing). (various references)

Indonesian

penelitian (research). (various references)

Italian

rilevamento (acquisition, bearing, capture, take over), indagine (check, inquiry, investigation, probe, research, searching). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

調査 (examination, inquiry, investigation), 踏査 (exploration, field investigation), 要覧 (handbook, outline, summary), 観察 (observation), 検分 (examination, inspection), 実測 (actual measurements), 大系 (compendium, outline), アングリカン教会 (angle, Anglican Church, Anglo-America, Anglo-Arab, Anglo-Saxon, questionnaire), ゴルフ� � (ace, circle, circlet, circlip, circuit, circuit breaker, circuit training, circular fluorescent lamp, circular skirt, circulation, circulator, circumscribe, circumscription, circus, club, Gauloise, golf course, golf links, gondola, gong, goods or services without charge, grounder, saber, sabre, sabre-toothed tiger, sardine, sardonyx, search, searcher, searchlight, serge, sergeant, servant, serve, serve point, server, service, service area, service car, service girl, service room, service station, service yard, snap ring, sports club, support system, surcharge, surf cast, surf casting, surf rider, surf roller, surf ski, surf trolling, surfboard, surfer, surfing, surge, surveillance, Surveyor, third, thirty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいけい (battle formation, compendium, corporal punishment, disposition of troops, farsighted policy, figure, form, grand-scale or long-range plan, great joy, honorific title for someone a little older, jail sentence, older brother, organization, outline, system), か�"さつ (inspection, inspector, licence, observation, permit, wooden tag), サーベイ , アンケート (questionnaire), ようら�" (cradle, handbook, orchid of Western origin, outline, summary), け�"ぶ�" (colorful pattern, examination, information, inspection, observation), じっそく (actual measurements), とうさ (difference, exploration, field investigation), ちょうさ (examination, inquiry, investigation, tidal range). (various references)

Korean 

감사 (Appreciation, AUDIT, Auditing, Auditor, surveying, Thanking, thanks). (various references)

Manx

towshaney (surveying), towshan (dimension, magnitude, standard), reayrtys (aim, aspect, prospect, scene, scenery, view, vision, vista), goaill baght jeh (note, notice). (various references)

Pig Latin

urveysay

Portuguese

vistoria (inspection, overhaul, rummage, visit). (various references)

Romanian

studiu (education, examination, learning, memoir, schooling, sketch, studies, study, studying), studia (consider, examine, explore, follow, learn, prepare, read, study), schiţã la scarã, inspecta (examine, inspect, scout, search, visit), cerceta (analyse, analyze, anatomize, ask, canvass, case, consider, consult, cross-question, delve, dip into, examine, excogiate, explore, 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, test, try, visit), control (censorship, check, check up, checking, control, direction, examination, grasp, grip, hand, intendance, issue, observation, review, supervision, surveillance, test, verification), examina detaliat, examinare amãnunţitã, expertizã (examination, experts report, valuation), face o expertizã la, agrimensurã (geodesy, surveying), inspecţie (inspection, muster, surveillance, visit, visitation), vedere generalã, mãsura (admeasure, curb, estimate, fathom, gauge, measure, measure off, measure out, mensurate, mete out, overshoot the mark), mãsurãtoare (measurement), observa (catch sight of, descry, distinguish, espy, examine, heed, keep, mind, note, notice, observe, perceive, remark, see, sight, study, watch), observaţie (admonition, analysis, comment, observation, reflection, remark, remonstrance, reprimand, reproof, study, watching), face o schiţã la scarã. (various references)

Russian 

съемка, топографическая съемка (topographic survey), обследовать, обследование (examination, workup), обозревать (overlook, review), обзор (conspectus, purview, review, stock-taking, visibility), межевание, производить съемку, исследование (disquisition, examination, exploration, investigation, research, study, surveys), изыскание (disquisition). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

premeriti (measure), premer, pregledati (audit, check, examine, go over, go through, inspect, look over, look through, overhaul, perlustrate, peruse, prospect, view), pregled (audit, auscultate, calendar, checkup, digest, exam, inspection, once-over, overhaul, overview, perusal, review, revise, scheme, scrutiny). (various references)

Spanish

reconocimiento (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, admission, appreciation, checkup, exam, gratefulness, gratitude, inspection, recce, recognition, recognizance, reconnaissance, scout, thankfulness), inspección (check, control, inspection, perambulation, supervision, surveillance, tour, viewing). (various references)

Swedish

undersökning (analysis, examination, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, overhaul, probe, screening, search, test, visitation), översikt (conspectus, expose, outline, oversight, overview, schema, scheme, summary, syllabus), överblicka, överblick (view). (various references)

Turkish

harita çizimi için ölçmek, ölçmek (clock, evaluate, gauge, measure, mete, meter, perambulate, take, take the range), anket (gallup poll, inquiry, poll, questionary, questionnaire), 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, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up), bakma (attendance, feeding, look, reference, superintendence, watch), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch), ölçme (gauging, measurement, measuring, mensural, mensuration, metage, surveying), genel bakış (conspectus, overview, roundup), yoklamak (examine, feel, grabble, grope, inspect, look into, search, test), harita çizme, inceleme (analysis, anatomy, checkover, checkup, compendium, dissection, examination, inquisition, investigation, observing, perusal, research, sifting, study, surveying), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, search, study, twig, vet, view), muayene (consultation, exam, examination, inspection, medical exam, medical examination, physical, physical examination), muayene etmek (check up, examine, explore, go over, go through, inspect, sound, test out), tetkik (etude, examination, revisal, study, verification), etüt (etude, research, study, study room, study time). (various references)

Turkmen 

syn (review). (various references)

Ukrainian

інспектувати (inspect), інспектування (inspection, surveillance), розглядати (consider, examine, review, rummage, sit, sit on, sit over, spy, treat), оглядати (case, notice, overlook, see, view), огляд (checkup, conspectus, examination, exploring, inspection, notice, overlook, recension, review, revue, visit), нагляд (observation, oversight, supervision, surveillance). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhìn chung. (various references)

Welsh

cyfarchwylio (observe), arolygu (superintend), arolwg. (various references)

contemplatio, contemplatione, contemplor, perlustro, pervideo, pervideo pervidi pervisum. (various references)

geondsceawian. (various references)

supervidere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "survey": surveyed, surveying, surveyings, surveyor, surveyors, surveys. (additional references)

Words ending with "survey": resurvey. (additional references)

Words containing "survey": resurveyed, resurveying, resurveys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Survey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: curvey, Muravyev, Scryveyn, scurve, scurvey, servay, servey, servy, slurey, smurfy, sorbey, sourey, suavy, sudve, suorey, surey, surley, surv, survay, surve, survel, surver, survery, survex, survy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: revs, rues, ruse, ryes, suer, sure, user, very.

-3 letters: ers, res, rev, rue, rye, ser, sue, use, yes.

-4 letters: er, es, re, us, ye.

+1 letter: purveys, surveys, voyeurs.

+2 letters: overbusy, overbuys, resurvey, surveyed, surveyor.

+3 letters: ayurvedas, cursively, nervously, overfussy, purveyors, pyruvates, resurveys, surveying, surveyors, voyageurs, voyeurism.

+4 letters: grievously, oversupply, previously, ravenously, resurveyed, subvariety, superheavy, surveyings, university, viperously, voyeurisms, yourselves.

+5 letters: cavernously, excursively, intrusively, marvelously, myxoviruses, obtrusively, prelusively, purposively, purveyances, reclusively, recursively, repulsively, resurveying, supervisory, universally, venturously, veraciously, voyeuristic.