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UK
/səvˈeɪɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈsɝˌveɪɪŋ, sɝˈveɪɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɝˌveɪɪŋ, sɝˈveɪɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
he studied surveying at college
How To Use surveying In A Sentence
- Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- With most of Bradford's other income coming from mortgage broking, estate agency and property surveying, the decent yield really is at the mercy of house prices.
- I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
- Amber Kamps has been busy surveying burn areas to determine where there is a need to plant trees.
- His eyes were worried as he helped her stand up, surveying her closely for injury.
- She blushed at the thoughts running through her mind after surveying him fully still clad in his charcoal grey dress pants that accented his derrière perfectly.
- Petersen says he was standing there surveying the scene, when he happened to notice a large whiteboard off to one side.
- I had expected mirin, surveying other recipes, but Taichi said it could make the meat hard. Sukiyaki at Kappo
- But it is all gone now, and the pert cockneyfied house stands up among the shrubberies and walnuts, surveying the ruins of what has been. At Large