EGAVE

probe

About 8.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
  2. noun An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
  3. noun Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
  4. noun An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
  5. noun An investigation or inquiry.
    They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
  6. noun A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
  7. noun A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
    Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
  8. noun A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.

Similar words

dig into examine investigation poke into catheter physician sensor tube splint gavage

Often followed by

the is and for into to of in was

Word family

probed prober probers probes probing probings

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