Pry vs Probe - What's the difference?
pry | probe |
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
To look closely and curiously at.
* Shakespeare
The act of prying
An excessively inquisitive person
A lever.
Leverage.
To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
(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 an adverb pry
is allegedly.As a verb probe is
.pry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).Verb
(en-verb)- Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.
Noun
Etymology 2
1800, ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd person singular verb.Noun
(pries)Verb
(en-verb)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
