Synonyms for prober

Grammar : Noun

Spell : prohb

Phonetic Transcription : proʊb

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Other synonyms for the word prober

scrutinizer

Définition of prober

Origin : early 15c., "instrument for exploring wounds, etc.," also "an examination," from Medieval Latin proba "examination," in Late Latin "a test, proof," from Latin probare (see prove). Meaning "act of probing" is 1890, from the verb; figurative sense of "penetrating investigation" is from 1903. Meaning "small, unmanned exploratory craft" is attested from 1953.

noun inquirer

Example sentences :

It was a painful business, but nothing to be compared to the pain produced by the "prober."
Extract from : « "Contemptible" » by "Casualty"

Tom contacted the government craft and learned that as yet no sign of the lost Jupiter prober had been detected.
Extract from : « Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung » by Victor Appleton

"We've had a couple of prober rockets shot into its surface," said Russ, as they watched the oncoming planet.
Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim

We must not seek in Goldoni a prober of the human heart, not even a fearless satirist of social conditions.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 » by Various

But Mary-in-the-glass, that sentimental young woman, was no prober of emotions.
Extract from : « Once Aboard The Lugger » by Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

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