reconnoitre
verb (reconnoitres, reconnoitred, reconnoitring)
Everyday
To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there. tree →
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 →
- Before we enter the cave, let me reconnoitre. tree →
- The spaniels were sent out to reconnoitre the snowy hill. tree →
Note
nothing for maths.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «reconnoitre» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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