1. A detailed inspection or view of something: The TV producers were making surveys of public opinions regarding the politicians who were running for office.
2. A comprehensive literary examination, description, or discussion in order to make a judgement about something: The professor was making a survey of the poetry that the students submitted to him which he assigned them to create.
3. Etymology: from Middle English surveien, from Old French surveeir, from Latin supervidere; super-, "over" + videre, "to look, to see".

1. To examine or to look at comprehensively.
2. To inspect carefully; to scrutinize: The police were surveying the people who were getting off the train to see if they could see the criminal that they were looking for.
3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
4. Etymology: from Old French surveeir; which came from Middle Latin supervidere, "to oversee"; from Latin super-, "over" + videre, "to see, to look".

A method used to examine an area to determine if there are any deposits available of people and their cultures: An archaeological survey is a kind of field research to look for archaeological sites, gather information about that locality, in addition to other detailed investigational activities.

An examination of a large area of land in which corrections are made to account for the curvature of the Earth: A geodetic survey involves research in which the form and the size of this planet are considered and for which corrections are made.

An active geophysical method which employs electrical current to examine subsurfaces of earth materials: The geoelectric survey measures ground characteristics by sending direct signals into the soil and measuring the resulting potentials, or voltages, that are created.

The geoelectric survey involves a process that is done to determine various discoveries, such as:

• Groundwater Exploration
• Coal Exploration
• Gold Exploration
• Iron Ore Exploration
• Manganese Exploration
• Chromites Exploration

The research of the earth in order to compile maps, and to perform reconnaissance work and comprehensive analytical work: A geological survey is a systematic study of the distribution, structure, composition, and history of land features of a selected region of the world.

A geochemical prospecting survey in which the materials sampled are soil and till: Mr. Williams was involved in a pedogeochemical survey in which he and others explored and collected examples of clay, composed of glacial debris made of sand, gravel, pebbles, cobbles, and sometimes boulders, and soil.

A field and laboratory examination of soil: A soil survey includess a systematic study of the description, classification, and mapping of soils in a given area.