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(v)
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
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(transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
(transitive) to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes
(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
(n)
A result of research or an investigation.
(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination
examination
Search; hunt.
Something discovered.
(transitive) To read completely.
The process of locating a term in a reference work.
The act by which something is reviewed, or thought about again; a mental review.
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
(transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.
The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
The act of searching in general.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
An act of detection.
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
The process of exploring.
(adj)
Serving to explore or investigate.
The action of the verb explore.
(transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
The act or process of verifying.
(transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
(transitive) To subject to analysis.
Having been subject to analysis; examined closely, carefully considered.
The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.
(adv)
(informal) Given the circumstances; all in all; all things considered.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
(countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
The process of interpreting written language.
An appraisal or evaluation.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
(transitive) To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
The act of pursuing.
Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
(sciences) Shortened form of examine
(computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
(politics, uncountable) the process of voting in an election.
To overpower emotionally.
The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
Alternative spelling of digitalization. [Synonym of digitization.]
Synonym of digitization.
(US, television) The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.
Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
Discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
Alternative spelling of digitization. [(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.]
The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
(computing, by extension) Any other type of information browser.
(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.
(uncountable) The act or process in which an agent (person or computer) parses something (a text, a program).
(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.
(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
(uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
The motion of something that crawls.
British standard spelling of analyze.
(transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
(transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
(Canada, law, finance) Initialism of Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (“the act controlling bankruptcy in Canada”).
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
(Geordie, slang) The drug cannabis.
The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
(medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.
The use of microscopes.
The act by which something is wiped.
The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.