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Survey Meaning Medieval Latin View 1540s 1246.Survey 英

正面 1246.survey
英 [sə'veɪ]美 ['sɝve]

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释义:
n. 调查;测量;审视;纵览vt. 调查;勘测;俯瞰vi. 测量土地
例句:
1. Its own estimate of three hundred tallies with that of another survey.其估计数目300与另一项调查的结果相吻合。

1. supervise => survey.
survey 测量,测绘,审查,调查,概述来自盎格鲁法语 surveier,俯看,俯视,来自拉丁语 supervidere,俯看,监督,来自 super,在上, -vid,看,词源同 video,supervise.后引申词义测量,测绘等。
surveysurvey: [15] To survey something is etymologically to ‘oversee’ it. The word comes via Anglo-Norman surveier from medieval Latin supervidēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix super- ‘over’ and vidēre ‘see’ (source of English view, vision, etc).=> view, visionsurvey (v.)c. 1400, "to consider, contemplate," from Anglo-French surveier, Old French sorveoir "look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch," from Medieval Latin supervidere "oversee" (see supervise). Meaning "examine the condition of" is from mid-15c. That of "to take linear measurements of a tract of ground" is recorded from 1540s. Related: Surveyed; surveying; surveyance (late 14c.).survey (n.)late 15c., survei, "oversight, supervision," from survey (v.). The meaning "act of viewing in detail" is from 1540s. Meaning "systematic collection of data on opinions, etc." is attested from 1927."

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