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{
"term": "exploration",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the act of travelling through a place in order to find out about it or look for something in it",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Budgets for **space exploration** have been cut back."
},
{
"text": "**oil exploration** *(= searching for oil in the ground)*"
},
{
"text": "Lewis and Clark's exploration of the vast uncharted area of the north-west"
},
{
"text": "the exploration of space"
},
{
"text": "Exploration activity slowed during the 1970s."
},
{
"text": "Extensive exploration was carried out using the latest drilling technology."
},
{
"text": "speculative exploration for oil"
},
{
"text": "Mineral exploration is continuing throughout the area."
},
{
"text": "The ship is designed for deep space exploration."
},
{
"text": "Interest developed in the scientific exploration of the sea."
},
{
"text": "Much of a child's play is concerned with the exploration of his/her environment."
},
{
"text": "This was the time of Humboldt's explorations in South America."
},
{
"text": "Cook charted the coast of New Zealand on his first voyage of exploration."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["energy", "gas", "mineral"],
"verb + exploration": ["carry out", "begin", "continue"],
"exploration + verb": ["take place"],
"exploration + noun": ["activity", "programme/program", "company"],
"preposition": ["exploration for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an examination of something in order to find out about it",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "These findings merit further exploration."
},
{
"text": "the book’s explorations of the human mind"
},
{
"text": "My ideas needed more careful exploration."
},
{
"text": "creative exploration of music as a medium in education"
},
{
"text": "her personal exploration of spirituality"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["brief", "extensive", "deep"],
"verb + exploration": ["need", "require", "begin"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌekspləˈreɪʃn/",
"audio": "ex/exploration/exploration__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌekspləˈreɪʃn/",
"audio": "ex/exploration/exploration__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (denoting an investigation): from French, or from Latin exploratio(n-), from the verb explorare ‘search out’, from ex- ‘out’ + plorare ‘utter a cry’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent."
}