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survey Verb 1. to view or consider (something) as a whole: she surveyed her purchases anxiously 2. to make a detailed map of (an area of land) by measuring or calculating distances and height 3. Brit to inspect (a building) to assess its condition and value 4. to make a detailed investigation of the behaviour, opinions, etc., of (a group of people) Noun 1. a detailed investigation of the behaviour, opinions, etc., of a group of people 2. the act of making a detailed map of an area of land by measuring or calculating distance and height 3. Brit an inspection of a building to assess its condition and value [French surveoir] surveying n
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survey The directed effort to determine the location and the nature of a chemical, biological, and radiological hazard in an area. Translations (SURVEYING) [+ building]; inspeccionar: [+ land]; hacer un reconocimiento de, reconocer (= look at); mirar, contemplar (= make inquiries about); hacer una encuesta de; to carry out a survey of → inspeccionar, examinar (in house buying etc) → inspection f, (rapport m d')expertise f [of land]; levé m (= comprehensive view) [of situation etc] → vue f d'ensemble vt [səːˈveɪ] [+ situation] → passer en revue (= examine carefully); inspecter [+ building]; expertiser [+ land]; faire le levé de (= look at); embrasser du regard (of house) → Begutachtung f; (investigation) → Untersuchung f; (report) → Gutachten nt; (comprehensive view) → Überblick m vt (land) → vermessen; (house) → inspizieren; (look at) → betrachten (SURVEYING) [+ building]; fare una perizia di: [+ land]; fare il rilevamento di |
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| It gives, in some particulars, a survey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this way will often serve to refresh the memory of the reader. Any one who cares to do so might test the validity of those rules in the nearest possible way, by applying them to the varied examples in this wide [6] survey of what has been actually well done in English prose, here exhibited on the side of their strictly prosaic merit--their conformity, before all other aims, to laws of a structure primarily reasonable.
As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. |
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