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

2) To survey a place is to look at it carefully, or to measure land to make a map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#m2)

3) A survey is also a careful look over something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x1)
- She surveyed 50 people about their pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x2)
- How many more chose red than blue in the survey? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x3)
- The survey shows 8 students walk to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x4)
- Our class did a survey of favourite fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x5)
- We made a bar chart of the survey results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x6)
- The farmer surveyed the damage after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x7)
- The team surveyed the land to draw a map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x8)
- Through the gap near which they stood they could with ease survey the whole of the large hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/survey/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/10/)
- [The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/12/)
- [A 2022 survey counted about 1,250 finless porpoises, slightly more than five years before.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/10/)
- [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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/8/)
- [Mei says it has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven may have 10,000: a lovely legend, but surveys count about 8,700.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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