reconnoitre

«reconnoitre» in Mova's school dictionary: To go and look carefully at an area before doing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (reconnoitres, reconnoitred, reconnoitring)

meaning for a pupil

To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a hero or a scout sent ahead to look around before the others move in; «I will jump down and reconnoitre»

examples

• The scouts went ahead to reconnoitre the valley. tree →
• Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre. tree →
• The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reconnoitre» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.