probe implies penetration to investigate or explore something hidden from sight or knowledge.

PROBE definition: 1. to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions…. Learn more.

PROBE meaning: 1 : to ask a lot of questions in order to find secret or hidden information about someone or something; 2 : to touch or reach into (something) by using your finger, a long tool, etc., …

If you probe something, you investigate it thoroughly. If you go into business with someone, you might probe her finances to make sure that she has a good track record.

An exploratory action or expedition, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region: the scouts' probe of enemy territory.

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any slender device inserted into something in order to explore or examine: A probe was pushed slowly into the reactor core to determine how much radioactivity had been released.

1 day ago · probe (third-person singular simple present probes, present participle probing, simple past and past participle probed) (ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove. quotations

probe noun [C] (SEARCH) a process in which someone tries to discover information about something by asking a lot of questions: an FBI probe into corruption

A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth.