Synonym: examine, explore, investigate, search. Similar words: microbe, wardrobe, robespierre, problem, pro bono, probity, probably, probable. Meaning: [prəʊb] n. 1. an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities 2. a flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities 3. an exploratory action or expedition 4. an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity. v. 1. question or examine thoroughly and closely 2. examine physically with or as if with a probe.
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91. Their target was a specific spot where, earlier, a towed temperature probe had measured a spike of warm water.
92. Its inquiry could be followed by a full-scale Monopolies and Mergers Commission probe.
93. The current data are insufficient to establish the suitability of the heater probe compared with other types of endoscopic treatment.
94. Breathing through his mouth, he manipulated his probe between her legs.
95. As the probe got closer to the problem area, the sound increased.
96. Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain.
97. The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
98. Complexes and unbound probe were detected by autoradiography of dried gels.
99. His eyes warned her to shut up, not to probe further.
100. Education officials have ordered a formal probe into allegations the pupil was struck at Darlington's Hummersknot School.
101. Sunrise Medical said in a lengthy report on the probe, which began in late October.
102. He will probe unceasingly for loopholes by which to claw his way back to his prewar stature.
103. And public health inspectors found the kitchen overrun with the insects after a hygiene probe was launched.
104. Thymocyte DNA from eight littermates was cut with Hin dIII and hybridized with probe B-B.
105. Now the workers whose complaints started the probe fear they could lose their jobs.
106. Parliament on Aug. 6 approved the setting-up of a joint committee with extensive powers to probe the scandal.
107. But he believes that linen is the ideal instrument by which to probe the hidden depths of marital life.
108. The president also hires James Burlane, a former CIA agent,[sentencedict.com] to man an unofficial probe.
109. Calibration of the measuring system was done before the insertion of the probe into the rectum.
110. Kirov's eyes continued to scan Ybreska's face, trying to probe the strange mixture of expressions which it displayed openly.
111. The space probe can photograph parts of the electronic spectrum that are invisible to the naked eye.
112. By observation we can probe this world and attempt to discern the laws which regulate it.
113. Such questions are important because they probe the conditions under which political and cultural resistance is generated.
114. Normally the antisense probe is used to detect mRNA whereas the sense probe serves as a negative control.
115. Fish tucked into crevices peer out, while crabs scavenge over the reef and probe soft corals for food.
116. The probe will continue mostly in laboratories from Great Britain to California.
117. The geophysicist must probe deeper to look at the forces generated below the surface of the earth by the continental plates.
118. Throughout the Gingrich probe, Cole has had to temper his crusading instincts with political realism.
119. Haemorrhage directly related to heater probe treatment occurred in four patients.
120. The heater probe reached a visible vessel in 90% of the patients.
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