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Survey   /sərvˈeɪ/  /sˈərvˌeɪ/   Listen
Survey

noun
1.
A detailed critical inspection.  Synonym: study.
2.
Short descriptive summary (of events).  Synonyms: resume, sketch.
3.
The act of looking or seeing or observing.  Synonyms: sight, view.  "His survey of the battlefield was limited"
verb
(past & past part. surveyed; pres. part. surveying)
1.
Consider in a comprehensive way.  Synonym: appraise.
2.
Look over carefully or inspect.
3.
Keep under surveillance.  Synonyms: follow, surveil.
4.
Hold a review (of troops).  Synonyms: go over, review.
5.
Make a survey of; for statistical purposes.
6.
Plot a map of (land).



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"Survey" Quotes from Famous Books



... From a survey of the earlier clergy, even as superficial as the present one, we are struck with its ambition of a lofty range ...
— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various
... and the other boat fell astern. Lizzie's father, composing himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high moralities and taken an unassailable position, slowly lighted a pipe, and smoked, and took a survey of what he had in tow. What he had in tow, lunged itself at him sometimes in an awful manner when the boat was checked, and sometimes seemed to try to wrench itself away, though for the most part ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... could now make out the figures of Colonel Pride and of three men who came with him. But he had scant leisure to survey them, for the colonel was ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... a foremost part in securing the success of the siege and England's supremacy. The gathered wisdom of many years spent in administering the irrigation of Upper India, trained him for his crowning service—the survey of the great famine of 1861, the provision of relief, and the suggestions of safeguards against such calamities. Broken by accumulated labours, he died at sea, Dec. 13, 1861, aged scarcely 43 years. At Madras, where his Indian career began, ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey
... The present survey includes the royal dwellings of the capital, those of the faubourgs and the outlying districts far enough from town to be recognized as in the country, and still others as remote as Rambouillet, Chantilly and Compiegne. All, however, were intimately connected with ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield


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