Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The measurement of dimensional relationships, as of horizontal distances, elevations, directions, and angles, on the earth's surface especially for use in locating property boundaries, construction layout, and mapmaking.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or the process of determining the boundaries and area of a part of the earth's surface from actual measurement of lines and angles; the art of determining the form, area, surface, contour, etc., of any section of the earth's surface, and delineating the same on a map or plan.
Wiktionary
- n. sciences Art and science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
- v. present participle of survey.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
Etymologies
- survey + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Of course, what the Playboy connoisseurs are surveying is not Madame Bovary's fine form, nor her much-commented-upon smooth bands of black hair or great dark eyes.”
“Chapter 7 talks about government agencies and their role in surveying, and once again, I was learning stuff right and left.”
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM
“The next big improvement in surveying, a means of measuring angles between landmarks, was the astrolabe.”
“It was striking at midday Friday, in surveying the massive, mostly empty grandstands and the fancy hospitality buildings (not tents) erected on the course, what a huge commercial venture the Ryder Cup has become.”
“After that, and always, he looked upon the face of nature with a more seeing eye, learning a delight of his own in surveying the serried ranks of the upstanding ranges, and in slow contemplation of the purple summer mists that haunted the languid creases of the distant hills.”
“I'm just interested in surveying public perception.”
“Note 30: Used in surveying and perspective, the butterfly was part of the intarsia beneath the window that has been destroyed.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“I can agree with this, though I still found the linked article from the Times of London to be interesting in surveying the researchers and thinkers in the area of cognitive theory.”
“What I have found in surveying the history of thought is that most of the "modern" issues have already been dealt with in great length by the great minds of the past.”
“After all, has not Bromion's empirical science, in surveying its proper domain, already laid claim to the objective universe?”
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘surveying’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
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"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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