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单词 surveying
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surveyingn.

/səˈveɪɪŋ/
Etymology: < survey v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of survey v.
1. The action of viewing or examining in detail (esp. officially); †the exploration (of a country).
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun]
surveyancec1386
surveying1467
survey1548
view1569
reviewing1573
review1604
traverse1658
retrospection1661
surveyala1677
reconnaissance1815
reconnoissance1824
look-see1876
look-over1883
reconnoitre1891
poke round1901
traversal1903
recce1941
tour d'horizon1952
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > of land, etc.
viewa1325
perambulation?a1500
surveying1577
reconnaissance1838
reconnoissance1856
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching a place or country for discovery
discovery?1574
exploring1577
exploration1616
surveying1632
explorement1646
1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 598/2 The surveying aswell of the Veerte as of the Venyson of oure Forest.
1577 V. Leigh (title) The..science of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes.
1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 74 If great occasion shall be for the surveyinge of the whole..of the howses or landes to the schole belonginge.
1629 Vse of Law 10 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Besides surueying of the Pledges of Free-men and giuing the oath of Allegeance, and making Constables.
1632 W. Lithgow (title) The totall discourse, of the rare aduentures..of long nineteene yeares trauayles..in surueighing of forty eight kingdomes.
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) i. 5 Commissions for the surveying and repairing of Walls, Banks and Rivers.
2. The process or art of making surveys of land: see survey n. 5a, survey v. 2, and land-surveying n.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun]
surveying1551
geodesy1570
survey1610
geodetics1677
land-surveying1771
gromatics1873
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. Ep. King In suruaiyng & measuring of landes.
1639 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1877) II. 41 A great lott..twelve acrs, paying for the same..three shillings an acr upon the entrance of the platform or bounders thereof, after the Surveying of it.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece Pref. sig. Aii I..reduced their Positions into Triangles;..an ordinary rule in surveighing.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 248 This King wrote a book of surveying, which gave a beginning to Geometry.
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 671/2 Naval Surveying, the science of determining the lines on which seas may be safely navigated.
3. Oversight, superintendence. Obsolete.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > superintendence
oversighta1400
surviewc1421
supervisionc1475
supervisorship1482
survey1535
surveying1538
superintendence1559
superintendency1579
superinspection1617
supervising1634
intendment1638
supravision1642
surintendency1650
supervisal1652
supervisure1690
intendancy1727
surintendence1744
supervisance1816
overseering1854
overseeing1890
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Libitinarius, he that hath the suruayeng and charge aboute burienges.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Applied to instruments or appliances used for, and to ships employed in, surveying.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [adjective] > of instruments for surveying
surveying1641
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 4 Discipline, whose golden survaying reed..measures every quarter and circuit of new Jerusalem.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. i. 2 In that socket you put the head of your three legged Surveying-Staff.
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 134 Having gotten together all the surveighing chains the city afforded..we went into the Church.
1701 T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in J. Moxon Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 17 Reducing scale,..Sometimes 'tis called a Surveying Scale.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Surveying Cross..in France &c. it serves in lieu of a Theodolite.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Quadrant The Common or Surveying Quadrant..is made of Brass, Wood, or other Matter.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Perambulator,..an Instrument for the measuring of Distances, call'd also Pedometer, Way-wiser, and Surveying Wheel.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 108/2 A very useful..addition to the ordinary Surveying Poles.
1846 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) I. ii. 26 Surveying ships are totally different from the ordinary run of men-of-war.
1883 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Surveying Chain, a measuring chain 66 feet long, with iron rings and links.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life I. vi. 86 My strong surveying boots cost 14s. a pair.
C2.
surveying-board n.
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a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 45 xx squires attendaunt uppon the King's person..to help serve his table from the surveying bourde, and from other places, as the assewer woll assigne.
surveying-place n. a sideboard or hatch on which the dishes were placed ready for serving at a meal under the direction of the ‘surveyor’ (surveyor n. 1d). Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table > table for serving meals from
surveying-place?1445
breakfast-board1544
credence1567
?1445 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 78 Hath made..a new halle with a squillery, saucery and surveyng place, al of new.
c1600 in Archaeologia 64 392 The surveying place by the kitchin dore.
1608 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 494 Ye kitchen, butry, surveying place.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

surveyingadj.

Etymology: < survey v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: surˈveying.
That surveys: see the verb.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > surveying
surveying1592
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 21 Hir [sc. an Eagle's] suruaighing spreding traine.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. iv. sig. L Whose Courtly Habit is the grace of the Presence, and delight of the surueying eye. View more context for this quotation
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) vi. 28 The worlds surveighing Lamp.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 561 A steepy Mountain..Whence the surveying Sight the neather Ground commands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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