Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws.
- v. To review or examine officially: The commander inspected the troops.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Inspection.
Wiktionary
- v. to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize
- v. to view and examine officially
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. 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.
- v. To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.
- n. obsolete Inspection.
WordNet 3.0
- v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
- v. look over carefully
- v. come to see in an official or professional capacity
Etymologies
- From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere ("to look into"), from in + spicere ("to look at") (Wiktionary)
- From Latin īnspicere, īnspect- : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“: When true or nil, formats output by calling inspect () on the statement result.”
“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.”
“What you should do is not buy it and tell me where it is so I can go "inspect" it!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In The Way of the Traitor, the third volume of an ongoig series of thrillers, he is caught up in conspiracy and conflict, and finds himself assigned to "inspect" the port city of Nagasaki, Japan's only point of contact with the outside world.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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I am : looking
To describe facial expressions when attending to something.
look, peer, glance, stare, glare, glower, ogle, peek, observe, scrutinize, gaze, gape and 18 more...
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Alternatives to LOOK
Look is a boring word.
admire, focus, contemplate, gawk, inspect, scan, scrutinized, spot, study, observe, gaze, stare and 3 more...
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scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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TT1 Lesson 2
date, may, chore, finish, put off, inspect, permission, interrupt, tie, untie, trip, control and 10 more...
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"Look" Verbs
glance, gaze, peek, peep, peer, scan, view, glimpse, gander, watch, snoop, eye and 34 more...
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To See or View
Verbs meaning see or view
observe, inspect, spectate, oculate, perceive, detect, circumspect
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