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/ɪnspˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Inspect v. t. (past & past part. inspected; pres. part. inspecting)

To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.

noun

Inspect n. Inspection. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... so far advanced when I returned to the convent, that it was clearly impossible to reach Besancon at five o'clock, and consequently there was time to inspect the Brothers and their buildings. The field near the convent was gay with haymakers; and the brown monks, with here and there a priest in ci-devant white, moved among the hired labourers, and stirred them up ...

— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne

... swift and apparently significant glance shot its way across from Sister Soulsby's roving, eloquent eyes to the calmer and smaller gray orbs of her husband. He rose to his feet, made some little explanation about being a gardener himself, and desiring to inspect more closely some rhododendrons he had noticed in the garden, and forthwith moved decorously out by the other door into the front hall. They heard his footsteps on the gravel beneath the window before ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... inspect all the corps of his army and the field of Wagram, which a short time before had been the scene of one of those great battles in which victory was the more glorious in proportion as it had ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... tired and must have a rest. Quincy called Mandy and she went to her room. A few moments later Quincy was in his own room and after locking his door sat down to inspect ...

— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin

... and greater in bulk; and what is still more remarkable, the mouth is armed with sharp claws, and the head is disproportionably enlarged. They may properly be called the nurses and warriors of the kingdom; they urge their fellow subjects in the first state to labour, they inspect the construction of the interior apartments, repel all attacks from enemies, and devour them with fury; and may be considered as the standing army of ...

— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry

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