Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws.
- transitive verb To review or examine officially.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To view closely and critically; examine (a thing or place) in order to ascertain its quality or condition; especially, to examine officially in order to make a formal report.
- Synonyms To scrutinize, investigate, oversee.
- To look closely; examine: with into.
- noun Inspection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate.
- transitive verb To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.
- noun obsolete Inspection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
examine critically orcarefully ; especially, to search outproblems or determinecondition ; toscrutinize - verb to view and examine
officially
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
- verb look over carefully
- verb come to see in an official or professional capacity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And again, just looking here at what we have seen in this very narrow corridor, which we have been able to inspect, that is not surprising.
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: When true or nil, formats output by calling inspect () on the statement result.
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What you should do is not buy it and tell me where it is so I can go "inspect" it!
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What you should do is not buy it and tell me where it is so I can go "inspect" it!
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They are more stringent at the airports and have a cow if you have anything larger than "travel size" tube of toothpaste, not to mention they can bust open your luggage at the other end of the flight and "inspect" your stuff without regard to how the "open" it.
Director takes blame over lax security at federal buildings 2009
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OH, DEPUTY PM, YOU ARE SPOILING USFifa's six-man "technical inspection" delegation landed in England this morning, presumably to "inspect" all the "technical" aspects of the country's 2018 World Cup bid.
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Although Jing Jing and Cha Cha are the names of the two characters, jing means "alert, vigilant," cha means "inspect," and together, jingcha, means police.
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She and Wenyi also told us of the punishment workers receive for speaking out against their low pay and horrid working conditions, and the bogus factory inspections by Wal-Mart operatives whose arrival is announced to the management before they come to "inspect" the workplace.
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The doctored version in the speech is incriminating, but "clean out" is not the same as "inspect," and "make sure there is nothing there" is invented out of whole cloth.
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And when he was at IBM at the turnaround of IBM, he made the argument that he found that in turning a company around, the word "inspect" often made more sense than the word "respect."
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