| 单词 | nose around or about |
| 释义 | (phrasal verb) Police officers were nosing around for clues.Accountants were nosing around the offices, conducting an efficiency study. Synonyms search Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday. examine He examined her passport and stamped it. investigate Gas officials are investigating the cause of the explosion. explore The film explores the relationship between artist and instrument. inspect Each hotel is inspected once a year. work over fossick (Australian, New Zealand) If you fossick around in some specialist music stores, you may be lucky enough to find a copy. Additional synonymsin the sense of examine Definition to inspect carefully or in detail He examined her passport and stamped it. Synonyms inspect, test, consider, study, check, research, review, survey, investigate, explore, probe, analyse, scan, vet, check out, ponder, look over, look at, sift through, work over, pore over, appraise, scrutinize, peruse, take stock of, assay, recce (slang), look at carefully, go over or through in the sense of explore Definition to examine or investigate, esp. systematically The film explores the relationship between artist and instrument. Synonyms investigate, consider, research, survey, search, prospect, examine, probe, analyse, look into, inspect, work over, scrutinize, inquire intoin the sense of fossick Definition to search for, through, or in something; to forage If you fossick around in some specialist music stores, you may be lucky enough to find a copy. Synonyms search, hunt, explore, ferret, check, forage, rummageNearby words of |
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