survey
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English surveyen, from Old French sourveoir, surveer (“to oversee”), from sour-, sur- (“over”) + veoir, veeir (“to see”), from Latin videre. See sur- and vision. Related to supervision.
Inflected forms:
form: surveys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surveys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surveying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surveyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surveyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of surveying; a general view.
pos: noun
examples: Under his proud survey the city lies.
gloss: A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
pos: noun
examples: A survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
gloss: The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
pos: noun
examples: The owners of the adjoining plots had conflicting surveys.
gloss: An examination of the opinions and/or information of a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: The local council conducted a survey of its residents to help it decide whether to go ahead with the roadside waste collection service.
gloss: A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions and/or information of a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: I just filled out that survey on roadside waste pick-up.
gloss: An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
pos: verb
examples: He stood on a hill, and surveyed the surrounding country.
Round he ſurveys, and well might, where he ſtood / So high above[…]
gloss: To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
pos: verb
examples: […]with ſuch alter'd Looks,[…] / All pale, and ſpeechleſs, he ſurvey'd me round;
By using the same classification system for all the dictionaries surveyed, it was possible to compare the lexical richness of each against the other.
gloss: To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
pos: verb
examples: It was his job to survey buildings in order to determine their value and risks.
gloss: To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
pos: verb
examples: to survey land or a coast
The proposed route had been surveyed by George Stephenson and consisted of a main line 41⅝ miles in length with two short branches, to Norbury and Poynton Collieries, and to Chapel-en-le-Frith.
He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads.
gloss: To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
pos: verb
examples: all the Tenants Leases and Copies are surveyed
gloss: To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
pos: verb
Related words: panorama
Derived words: aerial survey
Domesday survey
geosurvey
intersurvey
language survey
microsurvey
minisurvey
nonsurvey
Ordnance Survey
phone survey
photosurvey
postsurvey
presurvey
serosurvey
surveylike
survey meter
survey mile
survey monument
telesurvey
time-use survey
trigonometric survey
US survey acre
U.S. survey foot
US survey foot
missurvey
resurvey
king of all one surveys
nonsurveyed
surveyability
surveyable
surveyal
surveyance
surveyee
surveying
surveyingly
surveyor
undersurveyed
unsurveyed
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