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explore
1. To travel to or in a place in order to discover what it is like or what is there.
2. To make a careful investigation or study of something by exploring all possible avenues of research.
3. To make a search of an area for natural resources; such as, mineral deposits.
4. To examine a part of the body in order to make a medical diagnosis.
5. Etymology: from Latin explorare, "to investigate, to search out"; said to be originally a hunting term, which meant "to shout out (the game)"; that is, "to elicit the game through the shouts of the beaters and the cries of the dogs".
—Dr. Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
Elsevier Publishing Company; Amsterdam, 1966.
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