单词 | inspect |
释义 | inspect (once / 149 pages) v When you inspect something, you look at it carefully. When you're buying a used car, you should inspect it inside and out, and if you don't know much about what goes on under the hood, you should have a mechanic inspect it, too. Inspect means literally "to look into," and includes the Latin root that you find in lots of other words related to "look" — spectacle, respect, and spectator for instance. If you work in a restaurant, you may see a health department official come to inspect the operation, to make sure everything is clean and the food is stored and cooked properly and that the restaurant doesn't have any health code violations that might make your diners sick. WORD FAMILYinspect: inspected, inspecting, inspection, inspector, inspects+/inspection: inspections/inspector: inspectors, inspectorship/inspectorship: inspectorships USAGE EXAMPLESJason Klenklen, supervisor of transmission maintenance, says the drones currently are used primarily in rural areas to inspect transmission lines. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Medical examiners visually inspected the corpse, which was found dressed in a shirt, sweater and pants. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) Once it’s received, the site inspects what you’ve got, and sends you cash—usually in the form of a PayPal transfer or a check. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) 1v look over carefully Please inspect your father's will carefully Hypo|Hyper go over, review, survey hold a review (of troops) perambulatemake an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) caselook over, usually with the intention to rob vetexamine carefully examine, see observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect 2v examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification Syn|Hyper audit, scrutinise, scrutinize analyse, analyze, canvas, canvass, examine, study consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning 3v come to see in an official or professional capacity Syn visit |
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