Definitions for probe

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Spelling: [prohb]

IPA: /proʊb/

Probe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in probe (beopr).

Definitions for probe

noun

1. the act of probing.
2. a slender surgical instrument for exploring the depth or direction of a wound, sinus, or the like.
3. an investigation, especially by a legislative committee, of suspected illegal activity.
4. Aerospace. space probe.
5. a projecting, pipelike device on a receiving aircraft used to make connection with and receive fuel from a tanker aircraft during refueling in flight.
6. a device, attached by cord to an oven, that can be inserted into roasts or other food so that the oven shuts off when the desired internal temperature of the food is reached.
7. Biology. any identifiable substance that is used to detect, isolate, or identify another substance, as a labeled strand of DNA that hybridizes with its complementary RNA or a monoclonal antibody that combines with a specific protein.

verb (used with object)

1. to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely:
2. to examine or explore with a probe.

verb (used without object)

1. to examine or explore with or as if with a probe.

Origin of probe

1555-65; (noun) Medieval Latin proba examination, Late Latin: test, derivative of probāre (see prove); (v.) partly derivative of the noun, partly Latin probāre. See

Examples for probe

probe it with a fork, and do not take it up till it is tender throughout.

Then finally, the probe had to be released at the right moment and on the right course to land at that spot.

But where have you been, for the probe must have been over for some time?

UPDATE: Since publication yesterday, the Philae team learned that the probe bounced two times and apparently landed on its side.

Earthlings, we can celebrate the accomplishment of landing a probe on a new world.

In addition to this motive he felt an inclination to probe the matter to its utmost depths.

The probe appears to be sitting at the bottom of a "cliff" on the comet, but beyond that it's hard to tell.

It is a grave affair of state and one that it is best not to probe into.

What patient shall be afraid of a probe in so delicate a hand?

However, the probe stayed in contact with the Rosetta orbiter and has already sent back some photos.