Explore vs Pilgrimage - What's the difference?
explore | pilgrimage |
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(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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A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
(by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
To go on a pilgrimage.
As verbs the difference between explore and pilgrimage
is that explore is while pilgrimage is to go on a pilgrimage.As a noun pilgrimage is
a journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.explore
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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.
Synonyms
* (examine or investigate systematically) delve into, researchDerived terms
* explorerpilgrimage
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(wikipedia pilgrimage)Noun
(en noun)- In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
- Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.