explore
(verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes
explore
(verb) examine minutely
research, search, explore
(verb) inquire into; “the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”; “He searched for information on his relatives on the web”; “Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness”
explore
(verb) travel to or penetrate into; “explore unknown territory in biology”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
explore (third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored)
(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
• (examine or investigate systematically): delve into, research
explore (plural explores)
(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*plore", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explored();p. pr. & vb. n. Exploring.] Etym: [L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud,prob. orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer.]
1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.] Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope.
2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
