Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Explore   /ɪksplˈɔr/   Listen
Explore

verb
(past & past part. explored; pres. part. exploring)
1.
Inquire into.  Synonyms: research, search.  "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
2.
Travel to or penetrate into.
3.
Examine minutely.
4.
Examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Explore" Quotes from Famous Books



... to visit the Lozere' wrote a correspondent to me, 'why not explore the Causses? The scenery is, I believe, very remarkable, ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess's charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently ...
— The Yellow Fairy Book • Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

... arrived at the old farm she had discovered a hiding place for her purse. Back of the attic, were she had and Maurice and Toby slept, was a little chamber, so narrow—running so completely away into the roof—that even Cecile could only explore it on her ...
— The Children's Pilgrimage • L. T. Meade

... should, like the room, be empty! The possibility opened up all kinds of speculation in Lavinia's active brain. Why not explore the premises? Up till now she had forgotten her lost shoe. To pursue her investigations unsuitably dressed as she was would be absurd. Supposing she had a chance of escaping into the street she ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... set out to explore the establishment. They enter room after room, find them small, dark, and filthy beyond description. Some are crowded with half-naked, flabby females, whose careworn faces, and well-starved aspect, tells a sorrowful tale of the chivalry. An abundant supply of profane works, in yellow ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org