probe
US: /ˈpɹoʊb/
UK: /pɹˈəʊb/
UK: /pɹˈəʊb/
English Vietnamese dictionary
probe /probe/
- danh từ
- cái thông, cái que thăm (để dò vết thương...)
- (vật lý) máy dò, cái dò, cực dò
- sound probe: máy dò âm
- electric probe: cực dò điện
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) sự thăm dò, sự điều tra
- ngoại động từ
- dò (vết thương...) bằng que thăm
- thăm dò, điều tra
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb
1 ~ (into sth) to ask questions in order to find out secret or hidden information about sb/sth: [V] He didn't like the media probing into his past. + [VN] a TV programme that probed government scandals in the 1990s [also V speech]
2 [VN] to touch, examine or look for sth, especially with a long thin instrument: The doctor probed the wound for signs of infection. + Searchlights probed the night sky.
+ noun
1 ~ (into sth) (used especially in newspapers) a thorough and careful investigation of sth: a police probe into the financial affairs of the company + Arson probe after three die at home.
2 (also space probe) a spacecraft without people on board which obtains information and sends it back to earth
3 (technical) a long thin metal tool used by doctors for examining inside the body
4 (technical) a small device put inside sth and used by scientists to test sth or record information
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 explore, examine, scrutinize, investigate, search (into), look into, go into, study, dig into, delve into, poke about or around, Colloq poke into:
They probed his background thoroughly but found nothing unusual.
2 poke, prod, explore, examine; plumb, dig:
Snipe use their long bills to probe for worms in soft mud.
n.
3 investigation, examination, exploration, scrutiny, search, study, inquiry or enquiry, inquest:
There will be a governmental probe into the mismanagement of the department.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
deep/deeply
(figurative) probing deeper and deeper into the secrets of the universe
| further | gently
PREP.
for
using its long beak to probe for worms
| into
(figurative) The police were probing into her personal life.
| with
He probed the mud with his knife.
Concise English dictionary
probes|probed|probingprəʊb
noun
+an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
+a flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities
+an exploratory action or expedition
+an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
verb
+question or examine thoroughly and closely
+examine physically with or as if with a probe
