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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.



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"Explore" Quotes from Famous Books



... scholars of large culture, comprehensive intellects, and varied knowledge; they will consider a date, or a name, or a comma, of more importance than the great universe, which no one can ever fully and accurately explore. ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
... camp, and, viewed in the fresh light of a new and glorious day, somehow the affair did not seem nearly so ominous and awe-inspiring as it had the night before. Breakfast, as you may imagine, was speedily disposed of, and, having seen to the stock, the party started out to explore the mesa itself. ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... are harbours and fiords on a coast That is thousands of miles in extent; And new scenes that its windings unfold Fill those that explore ...
— The Last West and Paolo's Virginia • G. B. Warren
... the perfection of control we look for in a stylist. There may be badly-written scenes in Shakespeare, and pot-house jokes, and wordy hyperboles, but with all this there are enchanted continents left in him which we may continue to explore though we live to be ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... "Come back! Don't you see? They don't wish you to explore further! We are in their power, and must simply await their pleasure, whoever or whatever they are! They see ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various


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