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Another word for inspect

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Verb

  1. To study closely or systematically

    See also:

    investigate

  2. To look at carefully or critically

      1. An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category:
      2. An occurrence of a disease or disorder:
      3. A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation:
      1. An examination using the eyes; a look:
      2. Field of vision:
      3. A scene or vista:
      1. To travel or pass across, over, or through:
      2. To move to and fro over; cross and recross:
      3. To go up, down, or across (a slope) diagonally, as in skiing.
      1. To look over the parts, features, or contents of; view broadly:
      2. To look at or examine carefully and appraise:
      3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
      1. The effort to acquire knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research:
      2. An act or effort made in the pursuit of knowledge:
      3. A branch of knowledge or department of learning:
      1. To examine or observe with great care; inspect critically.
      1. To read or examine, typically with great care.
      2. To glance over; skim.
      1. (idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
      2. (idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
      3. (rugby) To score a try
      1. To observe carefully or critically; inspect:
      2. To study or analyze:
      3. To test or check the condition or health of:
      1. In opposition or disagreement; against:
      2. An argument or opinion against something.
      3. One who holds an opposing opinion or view.
      1. A piece of paper that is a negotiable instrument drawn on a bank and payable on demand to the person identified as the payee. A piece of paper that is a negotiable instrument drawn on a bank and payable on demand to the person identified as the payee.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    investigate

  3. To examine the person or personal effects of in order to find something lost or concealed

      1. To cause something to fall by shaking it, or something it is attached down.
      2. To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.
      3. (by extension) To get money from someone using threats.
      1. To move around in, go through, or look through in an effort to find something:
      2. To make a careful examination or investigation of; probe:
      3. To examine (a person or property) for the purpose of discovering evidence of a crime.
      1. To search (a person) for something concealed, especially a weapon, by passing the hands quickly over clothes or through pockets.
      2. To move about briskly and playfully; frolic.
      3. The act of frisking someone.
    See also:

    investigate

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Another word for inspect

Verb
      1. To observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically:
      2. To make a detailed inquiry or systematic examination.
      1. A slender, flexible surgical instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity.
      2. An electrode or other device that can be placed inside something to take and convey measurements.
      3. A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample.
      1. To examine or observe with great care; inspect critically.
    See also:

    scrutinize

    examine

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Sentence Examples

  • The state supervisors must inspect each state prison camp and each county prison camp every thirty days.

  • After America's entrance into the World War he went to Europe in 1918 to attend conferences and to inspect the U.S. naval forces, and early in 1919 was in charge of their demobilization.

  • Do you remember at Braunau he commanded an army for three weeks and did not once mount a horse to inspect his entrenchments....

  • His account of the aluminous district of Tolfa and adjacent hills, published in 1786, gained for him the notice of the king of Naples, who invited him to inspect the mines and similar works in that kingdom, and appointed him professor of mineralogy to the royal artillery.

  • It is his especial duty to inspect the churches within his archdeaconry, to see that the fabrics are kept in repair, and to hold annual visitations of the clergy and churchwardens of each parish, for the purpose of ascertaining that the clergy are in residence, of admitting the newly elected churchwardens into office, and of receiving the presentments of the outgoing churchwardens.

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