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Surveying

noun

The practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map.

Survey

verb

(past & past part. surveyed; pres. part. surveying)

Consider in a comprehensive way. Synonym: appraise.

Look over carefully or inspect.

Keep under surveillance. Synonyms: follow, surveil.

Hold a review (of troops). Synonyms: go over, review.

Make a survey of; for statistical purposes.

Plot a map of (land).

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"Surveying" Quotes from Famous Books

... in November, 1900, while surveying in Wyoming, my party saw two wolves chase a two-year-old colt over a cliff some fifteen or sixteen feet high. I was on the spot with two others immediately after the incident occurred. The only injuries to the colt, aside from a broken leg, were deep lacerations ...

— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... be transferred from its present site to Lumbi. The broad Chisalla Creek, which Mr. Maxwell calls Logan, between the northern bank and the island "Booka Embomma," is now an arm only 200 feet wide. In fact all the bank about Boma, like the lower delta, urgently calls for re-surveying. ...

— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... a deep breath, and looked about him. Once more he was in his own world, and surveying it in his normal size. He became aware of Agnes standing close against him. He suddenly took her in his arms and ...

— The Pygmy Planet • John Stewart Williamson

... neighbours, began to talk about Byron, for whose writings I really entertained considerable admiration, though I had no particular esteem for the man himself. At first, I received no answer to what I said—the company merely surveying me with a kind of sleepy stare. At length a lady, about the age of forty, with a large wart on her face, observed, in a drawling tone, "That she had not read Byron—at least, since her girlhood—and then only a few passages; but that the impression on her mind ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... earned the ill-will of the politicos by insisting that persons authorized to make public land surveys, or other surveys on which claims of title as against the government were to be based, should know enough about surveying to make one correct survey when given an opportunity practically to demonstrate their abilities under very favourable conditions. He had also incurred the dislike of influential caciques by defending the ...

— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

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