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prober

/prohb/US // proʊb //UK // (prəʊb) //

探测仪,探测器,探测者,检察官

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    probed, prob·ing.

    • : to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
    • : to examine or explore with a probe.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    probed, prob·ing.

    • : to examine or explore with or as if with a probe.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of probing.
    • : a slender surgical instrument for exploring the depth or direction of a wound, sinus, or the like.
    • : an investigation, especially by a legislative committee, of suspected illegal activity.
    • : Aerospace. space probe.
    • : a projecting, pipelike device on a receiving aircraft used to make connection with and receive fuel from a tanker aircraft during refueling in flight.
    • : a device, attached by cord to an oven, that can be inserted into roasts or other food so that the oven shuts off when the desired internal temperature of the food is reached.
    • : Biology. any identifiable substance that is used to detect, isolate, or identify another substance, as a labeled strand of DNA that hybridizes with its complementary RNA or a monoclonal antibody that combines with a specific protein.

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Examples

  • His own employer, Laborers Local Union 89, pulled support in the face of reports about a criminal probe and potential ethics violations.

  • This heat shield, however, will protect the spacecraft only when it is pointed directly at the Sun—there is no sufficient protection on the sides or in the back of the probe.

  • The group designed the probes using off-the-shelf technology that’s ready today.

  • Since the initial licensing announcement in June — coined a PR move at the time — publishers, analysts and trade bodies have grown more skeptical as the details shake out, due to the companies’ motivations while regulatory probes are ongoing.

  • In Southern California, investigators are looking at a power line owned by Edison International’s Southern California Edison as part of their probe into a fire that’s burning in the mountains near Los Angeles.

  • Violet Strange was a very charming young woman, as well as a keen prober of odd mysteries.

  • "We've had a couple of prober rockets shot into its surface," said Russ, as they watched the oncoming planet.

  • We must not seek in Goldoni a prober of the human heart, not even a fearless satirist of social conditions.

  • But Mary-in-the-glass, that sentimental young woman, was no prober of emotions.

  • That in fact was what I wanted to pour into the ear of the ecclesiastical prober.