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probe
/pɹoʊb/
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What does probe mean?
noun
- Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
More meanings (10)
noun
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
verb
- To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove.
- To insert a probe into.
proper noun
- A model of Ford automobile.
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IPA pronunciation
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I decided, as a useful test, to probe her on the subject of her marriage-engagement to Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite.
From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
More book examples (3)
No doubt some imperceptible cranny, some defect in the cement, allows her to insert her ovipositor, which shoots out like a probe.
A probe passed along the aorta into the innominate protruded into the same cavity about the bifurcation of the vessel.
Otherwise, the wound, as yet, perhaps, superficial enough to avoid penetrating even the bursa, is made a penetrating one by the probe itself.