probe

== English == === Etymology === For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove. For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəʊb/ (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊb/ Rhymes: -əʊb === Noun === probe (plural probes) (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. [from 15th c.] (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans. (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. [from 17th c.] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. [from 19th c.] (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry. [from 20th c.] (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. [from 20th c.] (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. [from 20th c.] (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. [from 20th c.] (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy. (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure ==== Synonyms ==== (game of go) yosu-miru ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === probe (third-person singular simple present probes, present participle probing, simple past and past participle probed) (ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove. (transitive) To insert a probe into. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “probe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “probe”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Pober, rebop == Asturian == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin pauperem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpɾobe/ [ˈpɾo.β̞e] Rhymes: -obe Syllabification: pro‧be === Adjective === probe (epicene, plural probes) poor ==== Derived terms ==== probitú == Galician == === Verb === probe inflection of probar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === probe inflection of proben: first-person singular present first/third-person singular subjunctive I singular imperative == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.be/ Rhymes: -ɔbe Hyphenation: prò‧be === Adjective === probe feminine plural of probo == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *proβwēd. === Adverb === probē (comparative probius, superlative probissimē) well, rightly, properly, correctly, fitly, opportunely, excellently === Adjective === probe vocative masculine singular of probus === References === “probe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “probe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “probe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Spanish == === Etymology === Metathesized from pobre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpɾobe/ [ˈpɾo.β̞e] Rhymes: -obe Syllabification: pro‧be === Adjective === probe m or f (masculine and feminine plural probes) (obsolete outside New Mexico) alternative form of pobre