Definition of survey

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Survey (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above..

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Base :: Base (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles..
Survise :: Surview (n.) A survey.
Camp :: Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc..
Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same..
Surveyor :: Surveying (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys..
Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
Review :: Review (n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life..
View :: View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects..
Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line..
Episcopy :: Episcopy (n.) Survey; superintendence.
Resurvey :: Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.
Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight..
Chorograph :: Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc..
Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..
Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.
Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark..
Surveyal :: Survey (n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it..
Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..
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