Excursion vs Explore - What's the difference?
excursion | explore |
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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, title= To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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As a noun excursion
is excursion, trip.As a verb explore is
.excursion
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Derived terms
* alarums and excursions * excursion steamerExternal links
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Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.