Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to survey
Participle: surveied
Gerund: surveying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | survey |
| you | survey |
| he;she;it | surveies |
| we | survey |
| you | survey |
| they | survey |
Perfect
| I | have surveied |
| you | have surveied |
| he;she;it | has surveied |
| we | have surveied |
| you | have surveied |
| they | have surveied |
Past
| I | surveied |
| you | surveied |
| he;she;it | surveied |
| we | surveied |
| you | surveied |
| they | surveied |
Pluperfect
| I | had surveied |
| you | had surveied |
| he;she;it | had surveied |
| we | had surveied |
| you | had surveied |
| they | had surveied |
Future
| I | will survey |
| you | will survey |
| he;she;it | will survey |
| we | will survey |
| you | will survey |
| they | will survey |
Future Perfect
| I | will have surveied |
| you | will have surveied |
| he;she;it | will have surveied |
| we | will have surveied |
| you | will have surveied |
| they | will have surveied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | survey |
| you | survey |
| he;she;it | survey |
| we | survey |
| you | survey |
| they | survey |
Perfect
| I | have surveied |
| you | have surveied |
| he;she;it | have surveied |
| we | have surveied |
| you | have surveied |
| they | have surveied |
Imperfect
| I | surveied |
| you | surveied |
| he;she;it | surveied |
| we | surveied |
| you | surveied |
| they | surveied |
Pluperfect
| I | had surveied |
| you | had surveied |
| he;she;it | had surveied |
| we | had surveied |
| you | had surveied |
| they | had surveied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would survey |
| you | would survey |
| he;she;it | would survey |
| we | would survey |
| you | would survey |
| they | would survey |
Perfect
| I | would have surveied |
| you | would have surveied |
| he;she;it | would have surveied |
| we | would have surveied |
| you | would have surveied |
| they | would have surveied |
Imperative
| you | survey |
| we | Let's survey |
| you | survey |
Verbs conjugated like 'survey'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'survey'
purvey,
curve,
curvet,
lurve,
resurvey,
sarve,
serve,
surbed,
surfel,
surge,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1386 (implied in
surveyance), from O.Fr.
surveeir, from M.L.
supervidere "oversee" (see supervise). Meaning "to take linear measurements of a tract of ground" is recorded from 1550. The noun is attested from 1548, "act of viewing in detail." Meaning "systematic collection of data on opinions, etc." is attested from 1927.
Surveyor is from Anglo-Fr.
surveiour, from M.Fr.
surveor, from O.Fr. verb
surveeir.
2. From Middle English surveyen, from Old French sourveoir, surveer (“to oversee”), from sour-, sur- (“over”) + veoir, veeir (“to see”), from Latin videre. See sur- and vision. Related to supervision. See: Middle English '
surveyen', Old French '
sourveoir', Latin '
videre'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] forward very much, took from the ground, by a great effort, the specimen of metropolitan workmanship which I had just pulled off: whistling, pleasantly, as he did so. He turned it over and over; surveyed it with a contempt no language can express; and inquired if I wished him to fix me a boot like that ? I courteously replied, that provided the boots were large enough, I would leave the rest [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Whatever she had, she seemed to survey only to pick flaws in it; but, once fairly away, there was no end to her valuation of it.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Misse Cassy, ” said Tom, in a hesitating tone, after surveying her in silence, “ if ye only could get away from here,—if the thing was possible,—I'd ’ vise ye and Emmeline to do it; that is, if ye could go without blood-guiltiness,—not otherwise. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)