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explore
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Explore , Destination Clic , and Odyssey are three educational exchange programs administered by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) and funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage to promote bilingualism in Canada . CMEC is a coordinating ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to investigate, examine," a back-formation from exploration , or else from Middle French explorer (16c.), from Latin explorare "investigate, search out, examine, explore," said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "set up a loud cry," from ex- ...
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v. inquire into [syn: research , search ] travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology" examine minutely examine (organs etc.) for diagnostic purposes
Usage examples of explore.
In a sense, we choose our own history, or more accurately, we select those vistas of history for our examinations which promise us the greatest satisfaction, and we have had little appetite to explore the possibility that our founding father was a black man.
At no great distance flowed the Loohi, a river not yet explored, but which is supposed to be an affluent or sub-affluent of the Congo.
If you are interested in exploring anal sex for the first time, a few words to the wary will save you a whole lot of discomfort later.
Here Admiral John Ruy Dias Solis, while exploring the shores of this continent by command of King Ferdinand the Catholic, was, with some of his companions, eaten by the Anthropophagi, whom the Indians call cannibals.
They spent months learning about each other, exploring and appreciating their different needs, preferences, and behaviour patterns.
Sinjin softly murmured, intent on assuaging his desire, exploring the bar-rier of her virginity with a gentle finger.
Neither Top nor Jup, who accompanied him, ever betrayed by their behavior that there was anything strange there, and yet more than once again the dog barked at the mouth of the well, which the engineer had before explored without result.
Off duty, he explored the ship and checked the fusion engine and studied the tech guides Thorsen had left and slept when he could in the cabin Benito Barranca had designed for himself.
As Jenks babbled like a Brimstone addict needing his fix, I explored the smelly cupboard to find that the pipe from the sink went under the house through a wood floor.
Pliny, in affected though forcible language, has condemned the thirst of gain, which explores the last confines of the earth, for the pernicious purpose of exposing to the public eye naked draperies and transparent matrons.
I succumbed to his ministrations, exploring his body willingly as he touched mine.
She wished that Sahor had not gone to the Museum of False Memory to become its new curator while Minnum stayed on to explore Za Hara-at.
In college, a group of us in the dorm used to conduct 278 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS Legendary Cheap Contests, exploring a strange common ground in which we matched, competitively, the miserliness of our parents.
The bottom of this valley was filled by a little lake, and while I was exploring the shores of this I saw, hidden underneath an overhanging ledge of rock, a couple of courses of that wonderful mortarless masonry which the Incas alone seemed to know how to build.
It was obvious that at least two of these tunnels lay within a reasonable exploring distance of where we were - both being on the mountainward edge of the city, one less than a quarter of a mile toward the ancient river course, and the other perhaps twice that distance in the opposite direction.