explore
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).
Definitions
To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
- The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.
To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
- It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.
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To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
- It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
- He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
- The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.
To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
An exploration
An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
- Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
The neighborhood
- neighborexploration
- neighborexplorative
- neighborexploratory
Derived
explorable, explorement, explorer, exploringly, explorista, explornography, reexplore, sexplore
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA