EXPLORES Synonyms

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• find unexpectedly

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• see for the first time; make a discovery

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• question closely

• put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

• investigate scientifically

• conduct an inquiry or investigation of

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

• an exploratory action or expedition

• an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• examine physically with or as if with a probe

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search

• a detailed critical inspection

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

• a state of deep mental absorption

• a room used for reading and writing and studying

• a branch of knowledge

• preliminary drawing for later elaboration

• attentive consideration and meditation

• someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)

• a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning

• give careful consideration to

• be a student of a certain subject

• learn by reading books

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• a detailed critical inspection

• short descriptive summary (of events)

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• consider in a comprehensive way

• look over carefully or inspect

• keep under surveillance

• hold a review (of troops)

• make a survey of; for statistical purposes

• plot a map of (land)

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search