Explain vs Probe - What's the difference?
explain | probe |
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(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.
(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.
(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
(intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question
* Hallam
To insert a probe into.
As verbs the difference between explain and probe
is that explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of while probe is .explain
English
(Explanation)Verb
(en verb)- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.
Synonyms
* (give a sufficiently detailed report) expound, elaborateprobe
English
Noun
(en noun)- They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
- Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
Synonyms
* (game of go ) yosu-miruDerived terms
* probe-and-drogueVerb
(prob)- If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
- the growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts of the crown