Explore vs Tour - What's the difference?
explore | tour |
(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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A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
(military) A tour of duty.
(obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
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(obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
In transitive terms the difference between explore and tour
is that explore is to (seek) experience first hand while tour is to make a circuit of a place.In intransitive terms the difference between explore and tour
is that explore is to wander without any particular aim or purpose while tour is to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.As verbs the difference between explore and tour
is that explore is to seek for something or after someone while tour is to make a journey; as, to tour throughout a country.As a noun tour is
a journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.As a proper noun Tour is
the Tour de France.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
* explorertour
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(wikipedia tour)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.Noun
(en noun)- The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour .
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
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