explore

[Ex*ploreĀ·]

Explore is a verb that means "to travel in or through." You might explore an island, a European city, or the rooms of an unfamiliar house.

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To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

Verb
examine (organs etc.) for diagnostic purposes

Verb
examine minutely

Verb
inquire into

Verb
travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology"


v. t.
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

v. t.
To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.


Explore

Ex*plore" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explored;p. pr. & vb. n. Exploring.] [L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud,prob. orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer.] 1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.]
Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs.
2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

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Usage Examples

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

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Other Usage Examples

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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