Probe — meaning in English
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English meaning
- rehearsal noun A practice session for a performance, to prepare before it happens in front of an audience.
- sample noun A small portion of something given or shown to represent the whole.
- specimen noun A single example of something, used to represent or study the wider group it belongs to.
- tentative adjective Not yet certain or fixed; provisional, subject to change.
- trial noun A formal examination of evidence in court to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime or liable in a dispute.
- try verb To make an attempt at doing something.
Senses
Probe is used for these senses in English:
- rehearsal The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
- sample A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- sample (statistics) A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population.
- specimen A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
- tentative Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
- trial (legal) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- trial A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially, religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- trial (archaic) The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
sample — full definition
- noun A small portion of something given or shown to represent the whole.
- noun A subset of a population studied in order to draw conclusions about the whole group.
- noun A short clip of one recording reused inside another piece of music.
- verb To try or test a small amount of something.
- verb To take a short recording from an existing piece of music and reuse it in a new one.