Definition of "explore"

explore

/ɪkˈsplɔː/

verb
third-person singular simple present explores, present participle exploring, simple past and past participle explored
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
2. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
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  Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
  2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
3. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
4. (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
5. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
6. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
7. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
  Quotations
  They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, page 9
8. (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
noun
plural explores
1. (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
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  Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach.
  2008, John Watters, Bonza Voyage

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