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exploiter |
exploitive |
exploiture |
explorable |
explorate |
exploration
| explorative
| explorator
| exploratory
| exploratory survey
| explore
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exploration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun exploration has 3 senses
- exploration(n = noun.act) geographic expedition - to travel for the purpose of discovery; Array is a kind of expedition
- exploration(n = noun.act) Array - a careful systematic search; Array is a kind of hunt, hunting, search
- exploration(n = noun.cognition) Array - a systematic consideration; "he called for a careful exploration of the consequences" is a kind of consideration
Derived form verb explore2
has particulars: probe
Derived forms verb explore4, verb explore3
Derived forms verb explore3, verb explore1, verb explore2
CIDE DICTIONARY
exploration, n. [L. exploratio: cf. F. exploration.].
The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries [1913 Webster]
"“An exploration of doctrine.”"
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
exploration, n.
1 an act or instance of exploring.
2 the process of exploring.
1 an act or instance of exploring.
2 the process of exploring.
Derivative
explorational adj.
THESAURUS
exploration
adventure, analysis, domiciliary visit, dragnet, emprise, enquiry, examination, expedition, forage, frisk, house-search, hunt, hunting, inquiry, inspection, investigation, mission, observation, perquisition, pilgrimage, posse, probe, quest, ransacking, recce, recco, recon, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitering, research, review, rummage, scouting, scrutiny, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, stalk, stalking, still hunt, study, survey, turning overROGET THESAURUS
exploration
Inquiry
N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.
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