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The act of looking or seeing or observing
Answer for the clue "The act of looking or seeing or observing ", 6 letters:
survey
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: appraise ] look over in a comprehensively, inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates" keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "to consider, contemplate," from Anglo-French surveier , Old French sorveoir "look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch," from Medieval Latin supervidere "oversee" (see supervise ). Meaning "examine the condition of" is from mid-15c. That ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Survey \Sur*vey"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surveyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Surveying .] [OF. surveoir, surveer; sur, sor, over, E. sur + veoir, veeir, to see, F. voir, L. videre. See Sur- , and Vision , and cf. Supervise .] To inspect, or take a view of; to view ...
Usage examples of survey.
Wexell Ambler sat across from her and looked unhappily at the survey in front of him.
And our geophysical survey showed an anticline at five thousand five hundred.
The doctor grumpily surveyed the gold antrum plug, then dipped its head in the solution again, and repeated his operation of shaking off the drops and letting the film of acid work.
In 1981, Anek Ram Sankhyan, of the Anthropological Survey of India, found a stone tool near Haritalyangar village, in the late Pliocene Tatrot Formation, which is over 2 million years old.
I attempted to make an end run around her objections by going outside the Fleet, to the Astrographic Survey Institute.
You know it, I know it, and whenever Survey gets around to releasing its new astrography report, every major shipping line will know it.
Important to get serious xenological survey of original autochthonous cultures.
Porpentine wedged one foot between the balusters and looked down, surveying rapidly the faces below.
THE Douimz ImAoH 249 V- Bannerman dropped his hands, looked casually over his shoulder, glanced at the breakwater, surveyed the water front.
While Robin talked, Beryl swiftly surveyed the room and its occupants, not least of which was a great St.
He surveyed the vast and various chambers of the treasury of Gazna, burst into tears, and again closed the doors, without bestowing any portion of the wealth which he could no longer hope to preserve.
They were all speaking English, as a courtesy to the British officers present, who included a Captain of Horse named Billman, Colonel Sir Peter Hicks, and a Lieutenant Dundas, a young Scottish officer in charge of an ordnance survey party.
As an integral part of the Strategic Bombing Survey, Reliance established the initial structural base for brainwashing, opinion-making, polling, Survey and the systems analysis used by the Tavistock Institute in the United States.
He took another large bite and surveyed Brat from under the battered felt of his hat.
Back at the walled garden near the house, Ana turned to survey the gently sloping terrain down to the jungle, and was hit by its unlikely but striking similarity to another would-be paradise, the remnants of which she had once visited, a hortus conclusus whose inhabitants had tried to keep the outside world at bay while an ideal society was being constructed within the boundaries.