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Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.

Camp :: Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc..

Map :: Map (v. t.) To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business..

Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country..

Survise :: Surview (n.) A survey.

Triangulation :: Triangulation (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them..

Hydrographer :: Hydrographer (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters..

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Command :: Command (n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.

View :: View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects..

Surview :: Surview (v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.

Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..

View :: View (n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case..

Dial :: Dial (v. t.) To survey with a dial.

Glance :: Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.

Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work..

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