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Audition vs Probe - What's the difference?

audition | probe |

As verbs the difference between audition and probe

is that audition is (label) to evaluate one or more performers in through an while probe is .

As a noun audition

is (countable) a performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

audition

English

Noun

  • (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent
  • I've been to five auditions this week.
  • (uncountable) The sense of hearing
  • His audition was poor.

    Synonyms

    * (performance by an aspiring performer) casting * (performance by an aspiring performer) tryout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To evaluate one or more performers in through an .
  • * {{quote-book, year=2008, author=(Denis Norden), title=Chips from a Life, chapter=8, isbn=978-0-00-727796-4
  • , passage=I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.}}
  • (label) To take part in such a performance.
  • Derived terms

    * auditioner * auditionee

    probe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
  • (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
  • An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
  • (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
  • They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
  • (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
  • (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
  • Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
  • (astronautics) A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
  • (game of go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
  • Synonyms

    * (game of go ) yosu-miru

    Derived terms

    * probe-and-drogue

    Verb

    (prob)
  • (intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question
  • If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
  • * Hallam
  • the growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts of the crown
  • To insert a probe into.