Spotting vs Probe - What's the difference?
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A spotted pattern.
* 1954 , Thomas H. Everett, The American Gardener's Book of Bulbs (page 161)
The act of spotting or sighting something.
* 2009 , Marine Corps (US), Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh (page 100)
(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.
Spotting is a related term of probe.
As verbs the difference between spotting and probe
is that spotting is while probe is .As a noun spotting
is a spotted pattern.spotting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.
- Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts
Derived terms
* * *probe
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