exploreex‧plore /ɪkˈsplɔː $ -ˈsplɔːr/ ●●● S3 W2 verb 
Management need to explore ways of improving office security. I’m going to explore the possibility of a part-time job.2[intransitive, transitive] to travel around an area in order to find out about it: Venice is a wonderful city to explore.3explore (something) for oil/minerals/gold etc to look for something such as oil, minerals etc4[transitive] written to feel something with your hand or another part of your body to find out what it is like: Gingerly she explored the bump on her head with her fingers.
WORD ORIGINexplore
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin explorare, from plorare ‘to cry out’; probably from the shouting of hunters when they see the animal they are trying to catchVERB TABLE
explore
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | explore |
| he, she, it | explores | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | explored |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have explored |
| he, she, it | has explored | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had explored |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will explore |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have explored |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am exploring |
| he, she, it | is exploring | |
| you, we, they | are exploring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was exploring |
| you, we, they | were exploring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been exploring |
| he, she, it | has been exploring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been exploring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be exploring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been exploring |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- James plans to explore offers from other companies before making a decision.
- We'll be in Istanbul for three days, so there will be plenty of time to explore.
- We spent a week exploring the Oregon coastline.
- Whenever possible, she and Flynn would go off and explore the countryside, taking a picnic with them.
- A less intelligent and less secure judge might have permitted the defense to explore these avenues.
- But I forgot, you've already explored my kitchen, haven't you?
- But l wanted to step beyond that and explore what an intimate relationship would be.
- But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.
- Instead, separate Centers of Competence explored issues of interest to the consultants who participated in them.
- On a sunny afternoon we explored the gentler scenery near Henley and Oxford.
- To begin to answer these questions, we first explore the normal course of human language development.
THESAURUS
to try to find out the truth about something such as a crime, accident, or scientific problem: · Police are investigating an explosion in the city centre.· The aim of the study is to investigate how climate change is affecting animal behaviour.· There were fears he may have drowned in the lake, so divers were sent down to investigate.
to find out more about a problem, especially after someone has asked you to do this: · The manager promised to look into my complaint.· Please could you look into the matter for me?
to consider or discuss something, in order to help you decide what you should do: · Military leaders are exploring new ways of defending the United States from terrorism.· I’m going to explore the possibility of a part-time job.
[intransitive, transitive] to try to find secret or hidden information, especially by asking questions: · The press began probing into the actor’s private life.· We have been probing the reasons why the government has been so slow to react to the problem of climate change.
[intransitive] to look somewhere in order to try to find more information about something, especially something that is difficult to find out about: · Over the past year Ms Deen has been delving into the national archives, in order to discover information on the early Muslim settlers.· I think we need to delve a little deeper.
if someone or their activities are under investigation, the police are trying to find out if they have done something illegal: · Several public figures are under investigation for corruption.
Longman Language Activatorto travel to a lot of different places also travel round British to travel to a lot of different places, especially when you do not plan exactly where you are going: · David travelled around a lot in the '60s and '70s.travel around Europe/the North/Canada etc: · I'd love to have a job that let me travel around the world.· She's been traveling around the country trying to get big companies interested in her ideas.
British to travel to a lot of different places within a particular area or country, especially for pleasure and interest: · For our summer vacation this year we're touring Spain in a camper.· We shall tour the city for two hours and then meet back at the bus.
spoken to travel to a lot of different places in a particular area, especially as part of a holiday: · Last year we did the Greek Islands but we were thinking of the USA this year.· There's not a whole lot to see, so you can do the city in two or three days.
also get round British to travel to a large number of places, usually in a short time: · The metro system in Mexico City is very good. It makes it really easy to get around.get around London/Europe/the Midwest etc: · You can use free shuttle buses to get around the city.
to travel to many different places in a particular area, because you are interested to find out more about them: · We'll be in Istanbul for three days, so there will be plenty of time to explore.· Whenever possible, she and Flynn would go off and explore the countryside, taking a picnic with them.
to travel around to different places all over the world so that you get the experience of living in other countries: · After leaving college and earning some money he set off to see the world.
if you do something on your travels , you do it while you are travelling to different places: · I picked up a few words of Chinese on my travels, but I don't speak it fluently.on your travels to: · Corbett met a number of his contacts on his travels to Taiwan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I’m going to explore the possibility of a part-time job.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The president wants to explore every avenue towards peace in the region.
I’m going to explore the possibility of a part-time job. The president wants to explore every avenue towards peace in the region.· The second chapter explores the effects of these changes in more detail.
(=think carefully and find out about an opportunity)· You may want to explore the possibility of setting up your own business.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· This has yet to be fully explored but one publication at least gives useful guidance in this.· Lott said the issue will be fully explored in hearings, but he cautioned against haste.· The law has not, however, been fully explored here.· Family problems and emotional factors have been fully explored and addressed. 4.· Retirement has been central to all of these, although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored.· It is also the explanation of political behavior that has been least fully explored by means of social scientific inquiry.· The potential role of young women in this process has yet to be fully explored.· Republicans do not want obscure the hearings' primary focus or see them terminated before all questions are fully explored.
· The role of health board staff is explored further in the next section.· Sally's case can be explored further.· This theme will be explored further in the next chapter.· With a microscope the picture can be explored further still.· The Labovian model can be used to explore further the similarities and differences between the idealised and original versions.· But this is not the place to explore further into that particular controversy.· To explore further afield, bicycle hire is available.· Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section.
· It shows how the oil devastates the beach and then explores how the mess could be removed.· Sally would take time to sit down with Hannah and explore how she felt when separating.· It is essential to explore how user-system interaction through the retrieval task itself could be developed.· Today the team is exploring how best to exhibit their findings.· This research will explore how those management objectives are developed and implemented.· It may be helpful for parents to explore how they have reacted under stress in the past.· We shall explore how these factors interact more fully below.· Serotonin is just one of the neurotransmitters under investigation as neuroscientists continue to explore how alcohol works in the brain.
NOUN· Other scenarios come to mind when exploring further areas of development for the partnership.· They could explore the area, learn its resources and contrive small comforts in their rooms.· There is a choice of over 260 walks exploring 85 different areas throughout the country.· Earlier this year, Philip Morris appointed a London agency to explore news areas of so-called non-conventional advertising.· He had explored areas which ranged from the untidy and uncared for to the downright squalid.· So, forget for the moment the big tourist attraction: explore your local area.· She frowned, hazily exploring the area near her face with one hand.· There is an active local historical society and members are delighted to meet visitors exploring the area.
· Differences in gender experience, as well as class background, will be explored in each aspect of inquiry.· They are attracted to novel situations and appear to derive satisfaction from exploring new aspects of their environment.· Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time.· Each color-coded trail explores a different aspect of the park.· Selected policy issues will be used to explore these aspects of central-local relations, using documentary study and structured interviews.· The child seems unable to explore all aspects of the stimulus, or decenter the visual inspection.· This chapter sets out to explore some aspects of this paradox.· Now, without constraints, it is possible to develop and explore aspects of ourselves that may never have emerged before.
· Every avenue must be explored and each of the alternatives fully considered.· But it opens up new, practical avenues to explore.· However, it remains an avenue to explore.· These are excellent avenues to explore.· Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services.· Trapped within such propositions there is no satisfying solution to be found, nor even avenues to be explored.· Another avenue to explore is the possibility of pressing the flower belonging to the month of the birthday in question.· I successfully blocked one of the main avenues they were exploring.
· This chapter explores the points of contact between the theory of social representations and the rhetorical approach.· This chapter explores both the promise and the pitfalls of considering organization design changes.· The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.· The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.· The story of this chapter explores the indicators of success and failure and what you can do about them.· In Chapter 2 we shall explore the problem of specifying the relevant context.· In this chapter I will explore the ways that gender affects self-constituting activity.
· The significance of the class-party nexus will be explored in more detail shortly.· By exploring these events in detail, will we raise false hopes that athletics is a special path to mystic insight?· The gravitational field has been explored in some detail by observations of the satellites and of the paths of fly-by spacecraft.· The question of whether it is in fact an asset of the business or of Fred can be explored in more detail.· This point is worth exploring in a little detail.· This is explored in more detail in a later chapter.· Scholarly cataloguers colour-photographed and explored every detail.· It is, therefore, worth exploring in some detail their role.
· Thus Regan sets aside prejudice and thoughtfully explores the idea that the concept of rights might legitimately be applied to some animals.· Few have been more willing to explore new ideas and break with old ideas.· This book explores the idea of major economic shifts being on the agenda.· They are committed to exploring the idea of the Internet as a public space.· The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable.· Such experiences vivify learning and give children the opportunity to talk and, through talk, to explore ideas.· She describes the strategies the project used to explore children's ideas and some of the findings.
· In spite of this a chance to explore the island was not to be missed.· Whole day cruises explore the islands once a week from Cannigione, and yacht trips are available too.· In the second half we consider the practical side of exploring the island of Madeira.· We enjoyed exploring all the islands, and loved the ferry journeys thereto.· Back on Anguilla, it's worth hiring a car for the day to explore the island.· Can we explore the island when we get back?
· Instead, separate Centers of Competence explored issues of interest to the consultants who participated in them.· In exploring this issue it is useful to watch out for two aspects of theoretical interpretation.· Why not use this exhibition, this symposium to explore new issues?· The fertility counsellor's main role is to help clients explore the complex issues involved in fertility treatment. 3.· For the most part, he had explored the issue on a more experiential level.· The final selection was slanted towards books with a strong social content and which explored political issues.· Chapter 10 is devoted to exploring issues in the production and comprehension of speech.
· Second it will explore the nature and role of those bodies which claim to represent the particular interests of small business.· Duberman describes how Albers would have the students explore the nature of paper, for instance.· But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude.· This research aims to explore the nature of this impairment and examine ways in which it might be overcome.· Language awareness sections explore the nature of language and communication, and can be used in class or for self-study.· The other more promising line of investigation is to explore directly the nature of conversational interaction.· However, their task is to explore the nature, and the consequences, of that relationship.· Future research could profitably explore the nature of children's explanations in a range of classroom contexts.
· The industry also has become more cautious about spending big bucks to explore for oil and gas.
· A hectic, but enjoyable annum ahead brings masses of new openings and opportunities to explore and exploit.· During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.· The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow.· The stronger my control, the less opportunity for individuals to explore, to express their own ideas.· But every student should have the opportunity to explore career options while still in high school.· Take this opportunity to explore these beautiful and varied islands that are waiting to be discovered!· His isolated Ottery childhood had provided few opportunities for exploring the possibilities of friendship.
· Kennedy was understandably wary and disposed to explore other options.· Fien is exploring his options and could transfer.· The big head start will give you time to explore many options thoughtfully.-0-&.· But every student should have the opportunity to explore career options while still in high school.· I just wanted to make sure I explored all the options.· At the beginning of the year, Bill and the class explored some options for whole-class projects.
· To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment.· We need to articulate the feminine position and explore its possibilities.· Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end.· Co. will explore the possibility of finding a purchaser for the station or spinning it off to Disney shareholders.· Alternatively, they could ask that Manelux explore the possibility of a no strike agreement with the tutors.· In this volume Storni skilfully explored the many possibilities of recreating meaning in rhythm by means of freer versification.· Local government was allocated these responsibilities with great reluctance only after the government had explored every other possibility.· The real purpose of the General Council was to explore the possibility of establishing effective cooperation between unions.
· To explore the potential of this idea further, we sent these leading hair stylists to the Alps.· This thus stands as a starting point for exploring the potential of complex semiotics as a mode of analysis of the photographic.
· This project has explored the training process.· The project explores the foundations of rational choice theory, probing the limitations of this theory and developing new approaches.· This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.· The issues surrounding the project were explored at a public inquiry in Plymouth last autumn.· The research project explores the substantive and technical issues of analysing hierarchical structures and in particular develops general purpose computer software.· She describes the strategies the project used to explore children's ideas and some of the findings.· The project will also be exploring how identity, the self-concept, changes in response to educational and occupational experiences during adolescence.
· Some pupils explored the sequence with questions such as: Which numbers are even?· The accompanying text pages explore these questions and give definite answers as a basis for discussion.· Almost immediately after researchers began exploring this question, however, they hit a series of snags.· But the most effective way of exploring this difficult question is not in abstract, supra-historical terms.· Once the question of who has been resolved, we can explore more of the questions about how.· A vital ingredient for exploring these five questions is imagination, and to that I now turn.· Claman sets out to explore in depth fundamental questions, but readers expecting such will be left unfulfilled and let down.
· The Red Studio and the views of Matisse at work show an artist exploring the relationship between real and fictive worlds.· But l wanted to step beyond that and explore what an intimate relationship would be.· This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.· This time around, she explores more fully the relationships between artist and art and artist and community.· It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history.· Later chapters will explore the parent-child relationship as a possible cause of work inhibition.· It will be interesting to study experiments in graphic and theatrical design that attempt to explore this relationship.· This makes driving an ideal context in which to understand the concept of subjective risk and explore its relationship with memory.
· This research explores the discourses of class in terms of the meanings clustering around the ideas of work and of community.· This research will explore how those management objectives are developed and implemented.· The research will explore the way in which paid work in later life facilitates or inhibits the development of such networks.· This research aims to explore the nature of this impairment and examine ways in which it might be overcome.· The research aims to explore how decisions are made in voluntary sector transport provisions.· The research project explores the substantive and technical issues of analysing hierarchical structures and in particular develops general purpose computer software.
· In 1991-92 the authors carried out a study to explore the experiences of staff on secondments.· Social studies, as they explore what governmental body is responsible for the quality of their water?· This study explored the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway in the regulation of gall bladder motility.· As evidence permits, the study will also explore the decision making of senior management inside firms.· The aim of his study was to explore why people took part in activities that yielded no extrinsic rewards.· In the following case study we will therefore explore fashion and travel images together.· Two case studies were explored in depth.· The Oxford Record Linkage Study was used to explore this hypothesis.
· I will explore this theme in the future.· She may feel cautious about exploring certain themes in her pretend play such as coping with aggression.· A small number of in-depth interviews will explore these themes.· Part Two of this book explores themes in the study of micropolitics.· When they return to school there should be an opportunity for students to share their experiences and explore a variety of themes.· What the book does attempt to do is to provide a framework of problems and ideas, exploring major themes.· In this talk I want to explore two main themes.· We will explore these themes in more detail in Chapter 20.
· In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.· At the seminar I met a number of interesting people and explored ways we could interact by sharing ideas.· While this might have been expected, neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources.· The proposals surfaced after Congress decided to explore ways to overhaul the cumbersome federal tax system.· In exploring the ways in which young people are guided into employment, Bates recognises that.· In this chapter I will explore the ways that gender affects self-constituting activity.· We are positively exploring various ways in which the organisation can make information from the archive more generally available.· The company said it will explore ways to improve the return on mining the deposit.
· People take a couple of years off, buy a camper and explore the world.· As I explored, a world of physical, emotional, and spiritual interdependence opened.· In the initial centuries of Bel Shanaar's long reign the Elves busied themselves rebuilding their land and exploring the surrounding world.· Touch is a major way that babies comfort themselves, explore their world, and initiate contact.· The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow.· Want to explore some virtual worlds of your own?· It helps children to explore their gradually expanding world through topics that are relevant and interesting.· But will they explore texts and the world with energy, ingenuity, and resourcefulness?
VERB· Drowsily, achingly she allowed him to explore her flesh where it was revealed above the neckline of her pretty dress.· We had allowed six days to explore the island: it was scarce enough.· Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
· How could one even begin to explore it?· An increasing number of architects had, however, begun to explore the distance between poetry and fact.· Almost immediately after researchers began exploring this question, however, they hit a series of snags.· Secluded that is, until climbers began to explore the crag.· We began to explore who Aline had to forgive before she could die as a complete person.· The young person can begin to explore their own abilities and the world around with confidence.
· The Activity Book at each level provides a project task which encourages learners to explore the video topic in relation to their own environment.· In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.· The aim of the competition is to encourage artists to explore the many creative opportunities offered by the new Tinted Bockingford range.· Sharing can cause problems, but in some cases the children can be encouraged to explore possible solutions for themselves.· He encouraged her to explore his body in turn, to use the same delicate, sensual curiosity he had shown her.· Any child who is encouraged to explore these aspects will learn the awkward shapes of words quite naturally.
· Be brief because the answers are needed only to explore general trends at this stage.· That needs to be explored for the particular work.· It is an ancient but enduring phenomenon, and it needs to be explored.· Here the situation becomes more complex and a number of different possibilities need to be explored.· In considering an appeal all these avenues will need to be explored.· Whole regions need to be explored, involving a program of survey.· Having said that, however, we need critically to explore the pluralist perspective.
· Far better to spend some money exploring this new medium than to ignore the biggest competitive threat since television.· Wahtever the true story, Folly Fellowship members took full advantage of the chance to spend an afternoon exploring Stancombe Park.· The industry also has become more cautious about spending big bucks to explore for oil and gas.· One day I hope to return and spend several weeks exploring County Galway.· You may forget about this entirely, or you may spend some time exploring possibilities in a rather inconsequential way.
· Its practitioners have now started to explore the legal hornet's nest likely to be stirred up by in vitro fertilisation.· Odysseus started off to explore it with twelve of his men.· This thus stands as a starting point for exploring the potential of complex semiotics as a mode of analysis of the photographic.· They are bored and start to explore the house.· If patterns emerge then the school can start to explore causes of absence and perhaps remedy them.· We've started to explore the garden properly.
· He knew that he didn't want to explore the castle.· Windows 95 users will want to explore some built-in security risks in that software.· But we wanted to explore the causes of ill health further.· The literal and metaphorical juxtaposition of drama and game is what I want to explore here.· Star animator Glen Keane, now in his forties, has long wanted to explore non-Disney projects.· In this talk I want to explore two main themes.· He wanted to continue to explore and make some sense out of his life.
· If, however, one wished to explore the immediate outside it might be necessary to examine specific aspects in detail.· All those articles were in a part of the store I wished I could explore.· Others wished to explore their own community's perception of the philosophy of the school.· Local authorities may wish to explore this possibility because of an increasing financial imperative to reduce net expenditure.· It is at this stage that the specific aspect of the Sonnets which I wish to explore begins to emerge.
WORD FAMILYnounexplorationexploreradjectiveexploratoryunexploredverbexplore
1[transitive] to discuss or think about something carefully SYN look at: Management need to explore ways of improving office security. I’m going to explore the possibility of a part-time job.2[intransitive, transitive] to travel around an area in order to find out about it: Venice is a wonderful city to explore.3explore (something) for oil/minerals/gold etc to look for something such as oil, minerals etc4[transitive] written to feel something with your hand or another part of your body to find out what it is like: Gingerly she explored the bump on her head with her fingers.- four-leaf clover
- four-letter word
- four-poster bed
- Four Seasons, The
- foursome
- four-square
- four-star
- four-star general
- four-stroke engine
- fourteen
- fourteenth
- Fourteenth Amendment
- fourth
- fourth dimension
- fourth estate
- fourthly
- Fourth of July
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- four-wheel drive
- fowl
- Fowler, Henry Watson
- Fowles, John
- Fox
- fox
- Fox and the Grapes, The