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 definition: to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely. See examples of probe used in a sentence.

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.

3 days 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

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.

To penetrate or explore physically, especially with a probe, in order to find or discover something.

A probe generally refers to an investigative device used to explore, examine, or gather information. It can denotatively refer to a physical tool or instrument used in science, technology, or medicine for …

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.

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