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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconnoitre/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconnoitre/#x1)
- Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconnoitre/#x2)
- The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconnoitre/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reconnoitre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconnoitre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.