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Probe Profiles (formerly known as Probe , The Probe Team and The Probe Team Documentaries ) was a Philippine public affairs program being aired on ABS-CBN and on its sister cable channel, the ANC . It is hosted by Cheche Lazaro and is produced by Probe ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "instrument for exploring wounds, etc.," also "an examination," from Medieval Latin proba "examination," in Late Latin "a test, proof," from Latin probare (see prove ). Meaning "act of probing" is 1890, from the verb; figurative sense of "penetrating ...
Usage examples of probe.
That teaching we have inherited from those ancient philosophers who have best probed into soul and we must try to show that our own doctrine is accordant with it, or at least not conflicting.
Set random course and stay clear of any Allegiancy astrogation probes.
Rick stowed the probe in the equipment bay and followed the two women into the lander, but it had even less room than the command module so he stayed in the tunnel, feeling a bit disoriented as he looked down from above on the angular instrument panel and flight controls.
The probe showed that other mail containing faint traces of anthrax had been delivered to addresses near both victims, leading investigators to believe that cross-contaminated mail may have been delivered to the victims.
The drill might probe lower and lower, boring steadily nearer to the dome of the anticline, but in all our minds was that sense of being trapped, of not being able to get out.
He probed further and was astonished to discover an anterior extension of the arcuate fasciculum to a well-developed patch of the cortex for which no specific function was known.
If we erase that routine, your probes will start up our nanites but stop short of assimilating them.
By astute and systematic observation, supplemented by occasional bribery, the team would compile a financial and operating study, probing weaknesses and estimating potential, untapped strengths.
The Illustrious One had actually looked at her with his black and flashing eyes, had probed with them through her barracan to the generous curves it covered.
The experimental voyager Eric de Bisschop added a refinement to his version of this theory by suggesting that the voyagers, on initial exploratory probes to the north and south and back again, noted that they had been displaced by currents in relation to the home islands.
A long time ago I learned to keep part of my mind blanked off under your probing.
They were sleek boomerang wing shapes but as the fallen probe was disassembled they seemed to be getting more material on their surface.
While he has produced an unabashedly commercial page-turner, Braver has also probed, in a profound and often disturbing fashion, some fundamental questions about the ever-expanding role of biotechnology in modern life.
Bronchus, bronchia, bronchile, probing, and withdrawing at resistancesand there it was.
They had come probing deep into Shilmista on orders from Ragnor, the brutish, unmerciful ogrillon.