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1. Consider in a comprehensive way
   - appraise
    
2. Look over carefully or inspect
   "He surveyed his new classmates"
    
3. Keep under surveillance
   - surveil, follow
    
4. Hold a review (of troops)
   - review, go over
    
5. Make a survey of; for statistical purposes
    
6. Plot a map of (land)

1. A detailed critical inspection
   - study
    
2. Short descriptive summary (of events)
   - sketch, résumé
    
3. The act of looking or seeing or observing
   "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
   - view, sight

Derived forms: surveyed, surveys, surveying

See also: surveying, surveyor

Type of: analyse [Brit, Cdn], analyze [N. Amer], calculate, canvas, canvass, cipher, compute, cypher, examination, examine, figure [N. Amer], gander, inspect, look, looking, looking at, reckon, scrutiny, see, study, summary, sum-up, work out

Encyclopedia: Survey