probe

Meanings

Noun

• Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
• Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
• An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
• An investigation or inquiry.
• A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
• A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
• A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
• a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
• Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure

Verb

• To explore, investigate, or question
• To insert a probe into.

Related

Similar words

• (game of go) yosu-miru

Origin

• For verb: borrowed from Latin probare ("to test, examine, prove"), from probus.
• For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba ("a proof"), from probare; proof. Compare Spanish tienta ("a surgeon's probe"), from tentar; see tempt.