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probing

/prohb/US // proʊb //UK // (prəʊb) //

探测,探探,探查,试探

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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

  • Elora Mukherjee, a Columbia Law School professor, said that certification for such a visa is the “basic minimum protection” that federal investigators can grant to the detainees who are willing to cooperate with their probe.

  • Asked about the probe, James, the attorney general of New York, said she could not comment on the probe because it is ongoing.

  • Police errors were rampant from the start, despite promises of a thorough probe, with the crime scene left initially unsecured and key figures not questioned for weeks.

  • Hopkins was escorted out of his workplace on Monday afternoon and told not to return until the investigation was completed, according to one of the officials familiar with the probe.

  • Baca is now in federal prison after a jury found he oversaw a plan to interfere with the federal probe into inmate abuses in the county jail system and later lied to prosecutors about his role.

  • “This is an era of probing to keep us off balance,” Comley said.

  • “Everyone has a preference,” the man says, probing Oberyn about whether he prefers the company of a man or a woman.

  • But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.

  • He spent hundreds of hours talking with the Nazis in their cells, probing their past, motivations, and psyches.

  • Indeed, through all of this personal probing, Christie comes across as strikingly likable, charming, sympathetic even.

  • "You will have to get over that feeling," observed Mr. Carr, disregarding the hint, and taking out his probing-knife.

  • The wound after probing looked sufficiently like an ordinary incision to deceive any one.

  • One at a time they put us on the rack—probing each man's story down to the smallest detail.

  • No sooner had the caravan reached us than our attention was drawn to the faces of the camels probing the distance.

  • This additional probing caused her pain but she showed no signs not even by flinching.