PROSPECTING Synonyms

• to travel for the purpose of discovery

• a careful systematic search

• a systematic consideration

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• exploring in order to gain information

• diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation

• having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect

• exploring thoroughly

• 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)

• a distinct feature or element in a problem

• a characteristic to be considered

• the visual percept of a region

• the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb

• the feelings expressed on a person's face

• a politician who is running for public office

• someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

• the feeling that something is about to happen

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• the act of looking out

• the visual percept of a region

• a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

• a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

• a prediction of the course of a disease

• the place where some action occurs

• an incident (real or imaginary)

• the visual percept of a region

• a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

• a situation treated as an observable object

• a subdivision of an act of a play or performance

• a display of bad temper

• graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

• the visual percept of a region

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• the range of the eye

• a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

• a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

• purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'

• graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

• the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

• outward appearance

• deem to be

• look at carefully; study mentally

• see or watch

• the visual percept of a region

• a prediction of the course of a disease