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American Heritage Dictionary (13 definitions)
- To examine or look at comprehensively.
- To inspect carefully; scrutinize: "Two women were surveying the other people on the platform” ( Thomas Wolfe). See Synonyms at see1.
- To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
- Chiefly British To inspect and determine the structural condition of (a building).
- To conduct a statistical survey on.
- To range one's gaze leisurely over.
- To make a survey.
- A detailed inspection or investigation.
- A general or comprehensive view.
- A gathering of a sample of data or opinions considered to be representative of a whole.
- The process of surveying.
- A report on or map of what has been surveyed.
- An administrative agency charged with the responsibility of surveying: the U.S. Geological Survey.
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For those with a professional interest in survey techniques, the "survey" is found here.
The Conference Board survey is based on a mail-in survey of 5,000 households.
Bureau director Robert Groves said the call-in survey is an effort to reach people who may have fallen through the cracks or did not realize that they were not counted.
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Middle English surveien, from Old French surveeir, from Medieval Latin supervidēre : Latin super-, super- + Latin vidēre, to look; see weid- in Indo-European roots.
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