survey

«survey» in Mova's school dictionary: when you ask many people the same questions to find out… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

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 →

2) To survey a place is to look at it carefully, or to measure land to make a map. tree →

3) A survey is also a careful look over something. tree →

sense 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 →
• She surveyed 50 people about their pets. tree →
• How many more chose red than blue in the survey? tree →
• The survey shows 8 students walk to school. tree →
• Our class did a survey of favourite fruits. tree →
• We made a bar chart of the survey results. tree →
• The farmer surveyed the damage after the storm. tree →
• The team surveyed the land to draw a map. tree →
• Through the gap near which they stood they could with ease survey the whole of the large hall. tree →

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 the corpora

• Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams.
• The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.
• A 2022 survey counted about 1,250 finless porpoises, slightly more than five years before.
• Great Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, began in 1791 and makes detailed maps at scales of 1:25,000 and 1:50,000.
• Mei says it has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven may have 10,000: a lovely legend, but surveys count about 8,700.

Trees and pragmatics

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