probe

[proʊb]

Definition:
1. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities.
2. A flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities.
3. An exploratory action or expedition.
4. An investigation conducted using a probe instrument.

Use 'probe' in a sentence:

1. Sensors and circuits were on the brink of failing and NASA experts realised that they had to do something or lose contact with their probe forever.
2. Their probe into the cause of the fire proved futile.
3. The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair and stitch up again.
4. China has announced multiple scientific findings from the Chang'e-4 lunar probe.
5. Each is its own probe into the process engine.
6. The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the Solar System on a one-way mission to the stars.
7. Yet, incredibly, the little probe managed to hear the faint call from its home planet, and successfully made the switchover.
8. Probe the prevention of calcitionin in young patients with fractures.
9. And we can now start to probe the structure in interesting ways.
10. A flashlight beam probed the underbrush only yards away from their hiding place.
11. Zamorano is also using technology that attaches a probe to surgical instruments so that she can track their positions.
12. His sharp, probing questions showed a quickness of mind.
13. China has the scientific research on samples collected by its Chang'e-5 lunar probe.
14. Its infinite truth lets me probe and follow it hard.
15. The format of the probe macros follows the probe names you defined.
16. When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
17. Atlantis was the first shuttle to launch an interplanetary probe.
18. Its rings were discovered by telescope from Earth, but space probes later found that spectacular rings surround some other planets.
19. Probe the function main.
20. The probe function then saves a frame and deregisters itself.
21. This means that you need to run the code coverage probe.
22. Probe for detail.
23. The final probe is a timer probe.
24. Together, the phone and probe weigh about 13 ounces.
25. A doctor probed deep in his shoulder wound for shrapnel.
26. NOTE: This example does not show the full results of the probe.
27. To probe C++ functions, use the following commands.
28. The survey also probed attitudes and anxieties.
29. The D language structure consists of one or more probe clauses.
30. The probe will print debugging information about denied capabilities.
31. Dr Amid probed around the sensitive area.
32. The Pioneer probes have on board ultraviolet instruments which are measuring light that we can't measure on the earth.
33. Chang'e 4 is the first lunar probe in history that has successfully landed on the "dark" side of the moon.
34. The police have probed claims that he sold fake medicine.
35. McKinsey said it hasn't launched a probe.
36. The doctor probed the wound for signs of infection.
37. The Office of Fair Trading has been probing banking practices.
38. He probes the enemy's weak positions, ignoring his strongholds.
39. Chinese scientists unveiled their latest lunar probe, the Chang'e 4, on Wednesday, saying it will be launched in December on a mission to land on the far side of the moon.
40. This could happen to any kind of pitot probe, but by the summer of 2009, the problem of icing on the Thales AA was known to be especially common.
41. Probe into the value of the spiral CT 3-dimensional image reconstruction used in the diagnosis of the complicated membrum minor articulus trauma.
42. Currently, the exit probe point is supported for system calls only.
43. The policeman made efforts to probe into the case of murder.
44. The form asks probing questions.
45. China's first planetary probe, the tiny Yinghuo-1 orbiter, will also hitch a ride to Mars with Phobos-Grunt.
46. Identify the probe points where a probe is to be dynamically enabled.
47. She always wants to probe too deeply into others' personal affairs.
48. The probe was the first to sample the atmosphere of a gas planet.
49. Use breakpoints to pause execution to probe state.
50. A doctor used a probe to remove metal fragments from a wound.
51. They asked a lot of probing questions.
52. Space-probe photographs indicate the existence of giant volcanoes on the Martian surface.
53. The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair, and stitch up again.
54. I probed around for some time in the bushes.
55. Searchlights probed the night sky.
56. She looked away from his dark probing eyes.
57. For three years, I have probed for understanding.
58. I was again using the cold, unflinching eye of the camera to probe a sick society.
59. They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.
60. The more they probed into his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become.