WORD: PROBE
MEANING:
1.
a. A slender, flexible surgical instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity.
b. An electrode or other device that can be placed inside something to take and convey measurements.
c. A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample.
d. A space probe.
2.
a. An exploratory action or expedition, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region: the scouts' probe of enemy territory.
b. The act of exploring or searching with a device or instrument: the surgeon's probe of the clogged artery.
c. An investigation into unfamiliar matters or questionable activities; a penetrating inquiry: a congressional probe into price fixing; a reporter's probe into a public figure's past. See Synonyms at inquiry.
3. investigation, inquiry
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Parrikar on AgustaWestland probe: Invisible hand guided action or inaction
2. 'Invincible' hand slowed down probe: Parrikar
2. there was a congressional probe into the scandal
PRONOUNCE:
probe - प्रोब
LINK: PROBE
MEANING:
1.
a. A slender, flexible surgical instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity.
b. An electrode or other device that can be placed inside something to take and convey measurements.
c. A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample.
d. A space probe.
2.
a. An exploratory action or expedition, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region: the scouts' probe of enemy territory.
b. The act of exploring or searching with a device or instrument: the surgeon's probe of the clogged artery.
c. An investigation into unfamiliar matters or questionable activities; a penetrating inquiry: a congressional probe into price fixing; a reporter's probe into a public figure's past. See Synonyms at inquiry.
3. investigation, inquiry
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Parrikar on AgustaWestland probe: Invisible hand guided action or inaction
2. 'Invincible' hand slowed down probe: Parrikar
2. there was a congressional probe into the scandal
PRONOUNCE:
probe - प्रोब
LINK: PROBE
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