survey²

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To ask many people questions in order to gather information.

   Researchers surveyed over a thousand students.

2. 2
   verb

   To look carefully at the whole of something.

   She stood on the hill and surveyed the valley below.

From Middle English surveyen, from Old French sourveoir, surveer (“to oversee”), from sour-, sur- (“over”) + veoir, veeir (“to see”), from Latin videre. See sur- and vision. Related to supervision.

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