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Explore

verb

(past & past part. explored; pres. part. exploring)

Inquire into. Synonyms: research, search. "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

Travel to or penetrate into.

Examine minutely.

Examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes.

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"Explore" Quotes from Famous Books

... glosses in this particular instance upon the commonly accepted rules of what is right and proper, he was not for a moment prepared to accord the terrible gift of an independent responsibility to Lady Harman. In that direction lay regions that Mr. Brumley had still to explore. Lady Harman he considered was married wrongly and disastrously and this he held to be essentially the fault of Sir Isaac—with perhaps some slight blame attaching to Lady Harman's mother. The only path of escape he could ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... in time, nor separated by such a difference of intervening country, from the song of the Mandragore in Nodier to those muffled shrieks of a better-known variety of the same mystic plant, that tell us of Maupassant's growing progress to his fate. As you explore the time and the space of the interval you come across wonderful things. There are the micro- macrocosms of Hugo, where, as in Baudelaire's line on the albatross quoted above, he is partly hampered because he ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... hard—for it was now the third week of May—and by the time his bread and butter was eaten the boy had a fancy to explore farther. He wandered through the strawberry-beds, and, finding nothing there but disappointment, allowed himself to run lazily after a white butterfly, which led him down to the front of the pavilion, over the parterres of budding tulips and across to an east border ...

— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... I am sorry to say that John Broom's fitful industry was still kept for his own fancies. To climb trees, to run races with the sheep dog, to cut grotesque sticks, gather hedge fruits, explore a bog, or make new friends among beasts and birds—at such matters he would labor with feverish zeal. But so far from trying to cure himself of his indolence about daily drudgery, he found a new and pleasant excitement in thwarting the ...

— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various

... land animals of this period preserved to us. There are hardly any mines or quarries in the beds of this age to bring these fossils to light. In the most of the other rocks there is more to tempt man to explore them for coal ores ...

— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various

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