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Survey   /sərvˈeɪ/  /sˈərvˌeɪ/   Listen
Survey

noun
1.
A detailed critical inspection.  Synonym: study.
2.
Short descriptive summary (of events).  Synonyms: resume, sketch.
3.
The act of looking or seeing or observing.  Synonyms: sight, view.  "His survey of the battlefield was limited"
verb
(past & past part. surveyed; pres. part. surveying)
1.
Consider in a comprehensive way.  Synonym: appraise.
2.
Look over carefully or inspect.
3.
Keep under surveillance.  Synonyms: follow, surveil.
4.
Hold a review (of troops).  Synonyms: go over, review.
5.
Make a survey of; for statistical purposes.
6.
Plot a map of (land).



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"Survey" Quotes from Famous Books



... and silence could be ensured. He noticed that it had double doors, and that there were heavy curtains before the window. And during the few minutes which elapsed between his entrance and Mrs. Mallathorpe's, he took the precaution to look behind those curtains, and to survey his surroundings—what he had to say was not to be overheard, if ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... matter must be broached, to allow time to discuss it in full detail. They had changed places and he was stroke now. He pulled with a slower swing but greater power than Sam and for some time bent to his work in silence, thinking over what he was going to say. He took a rapid mental survey of Sam's present life and future, of what it held and more especially of what it did not hold; the limitations, the lack of opportunity, the struggle for existence that left no room for ambitions or hopes. And he, with Caesar's ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... commanding about a cent a pound more in the market. There may possibly be similar conditions in other states; certainly in Alabama the black prairie tilled by the Negroes is esteemed better than the other land. Since this was first written I have chanced upon the report of the Geological Survey of Alabama for 1881 and 1882, in which Mr. E. A. Smith sums up this same ...
— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey
... navies of the earth might ride. Mark its capacities in their as yet incipient state of development; its various fertility, its mineral wealth, its gigantic promise of support for future generations. Survey the people of this Union, pursuing their several branches of enterprise and industry, with none to hinder or molest. Ponder the statistics of your country's growth. See the iron rods of communication along which ...
— The Religion of Politics • Ezra S. Gannett
... began the construction of a larger and better instrument. Grinding the lenses with his own hands with consummate skill, he succeeded in making a telescope magnifying thirty times. Thus equipped he was ready to begin a survey of the heavens. The first object he carefully examined was naturally the moon. He found there everything at first sight very like the earth, mountains and valleys, craters and plains, rocks, and apparently seas. You may imagine the hostility excited among the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various


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