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    [prōb]
    noun
    probe (noun) · probes (plural noun) · space probe (noun) · space probes (plural noun)
    1. a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.
      • a small device, especially an electrode, used for measuring, testing, or obtaining information.
      • a projecting device for engaging in a drogue, either on an aircraft for use in inflight refueling or on a spacecraft for use in docking with another craft.
      • an unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transmit information about its environment.
      • an investigation into a crime or other matter:
        "a probe into the maritime industry by the FBI"
    verb
    probe (verb) · probes (third person present) · probed (past tense) · probed (past participle) · probing (present participle)
    1. physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument:
      "researchers probing the digestive glands of mollusks"
      • seek to uncover information about someone or something:
        "police are probing another murder" · "he began to probe into Donald's whereabouts"
    Origin
    late Middle English (as a noun): from late Latin proba ‘proof’ (in medieval Latin ‘examination’), from Latin probare ‘to test’. The verb dates from the mid 17th century.
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    verb
    1. physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument:
      examine
      feel
      explore
      prod
      poke
      check
      feel around
     
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  2. The term "probe" can mean the following:
    1. To try to discover information that others do not want you to know by asking questions carefully and indirectly.
    2. To search into or examine thoroughly.
    3. To touch or reach into something using your finger or a tool to see or find something123.
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    probe verb [ I or T ] uk / prəʊb / us / proʊb / Add to word list to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly:

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    verb (used with object), probed, prob·ing. to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience. Synonyms: scrutinize, investigate to examine or explore with or as if with an instrument:

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    PROBE meaning: 1 : to ask a lot of questions in order to find secret or hidden information about someone or something; 2 : to touch or reach into (something) by using your finger, a long tool, etc., in order to see or find something

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