probe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /pɹəʊb/    美 /pɹoʊb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
  2. Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.; An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
    — You know, XR178.9, we haven't done any anal probes in a while.
  3. Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. figuratively
    — Silverberg also gives the reader reader some excellent character insight; deep probes into the minds of all the principals bring the reader closer to the persons involved than might be thought possible with the plot so far removed from the realm of normality.
  4. An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
  5. An investigation or inquiry. figuratively
    — They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
  6. A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
  7. A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
    — Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
  8. A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
  9. A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
  10. Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
动词 v.
  1. To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove. ambitransitive
    — If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
  2. To insert a probe into. transitive

词形变化

probes plural probes present,singular,third-person probing participle,present probed participle,past probed past

词汇关系

衍生词
armed probe bioprobe Bracewell probe cryoprobe endoprobe fluoroprobe geoprobe immunoprobe lambda probe light probe microprobe milliprobe miniprobe misprobe multiprobe nanoprobe oligoprobe photoprobe probeable probe-and-drogue probelike prober probe-scissors probeset pyroprobe radioprobe reflection probe reprobe riboprobe space probe thermoprobe thetaprobe von Neumann probe unprobed
相关词
probable proband probation probeable probesome probity proof prove

词源

词源 1
For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.
词源 2
For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.
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