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# survey

noun (survey, surveys); verb (survey, surveys, surveyed, surveying)

«survey» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A survey is when you ask many people the same questions to find out what they think or do. To survey people is to ask them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#m1)
2. To survey a place is to look at it carefully, or to measure land to make a map. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#m2)
3. A survey is also a careful look over something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths and statistics: a count of answers: people asked, how many chose each answer, often shown in a tally, table, bar chart or pictogram; the total asked is the whole and the groups are its parts. In science: a survey of birds in the school garden. In geography: land surveys make maps. Phrases: carry out a survey, take a survey, survey results, a class survey.

### Examples

- In a survey of 30 students, 12 liked apples best. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x1)
- She surveyed 50 people about their pets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x2)
- How many more chose red than blue in the survey? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x3)
- The survey shows 8 students walk to school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x4)
- Our class did a survey of favourite fruits. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x5)
- We made a bar chart of the survey results. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x6)
- The farmer surveyed the damage after the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x7)
- The team surveyed the land to draw a map. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x8)
- Through the gap near which they stood they could with ease survey the whole of the large hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x9)

### Note

Noun stress SUR-vey, verb stress often sur-VEY. Plural «surveys». The total asked is the whole; the groups are its parts. Trap: the parts should add up to the number surveyed; if a person can choose two answers, they may not.

## In Jewish tradition

God asks Job whether he has measured and understood the earth.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads these questions as showing how small human understanding is next to God's creation.

### Examples

- Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? (Writings JOB.38.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/survey/#x1)

### Note

Noun stress SUR-vey, verb stress often sur-VEY. Plural «surveys». The total asked is the whole; the groups are its parts. Trap: the parts should add up to the number surveyed; if a person can choose two answers, they may not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «survey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«survey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/survey.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «survey» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/survey/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«survey» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/survey.html) on Mova free.