different between probe vs heed

English

Etymology

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”).

For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???b/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?o?b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

probe (plural probes)

1. (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. [from 15th c.]
2. (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. [from 17th c.]
3. An act of probing; a prod, a poke. [from 19th c.]
4. (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry. [from 20th c.]

   They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.

5. (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. [from 20th c.]
6. (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. [from 20th c.]

   Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.

7. (astronautics) A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. [from 20th c.]
8. (game of Go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
9. (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure

Synonyms

• (game of go) yosu-miru

Derived terms

• probe-and-drogue

Translations

Verb

probe (third-person singular simple present probes, present participle probing, simple past and past participle probed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question

   If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     the growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts of the crown

2. (transitive) To insert a probe into.

Related terms

• probable
• prove
• proof
• probity
• probation

Translations

Further reading

• probe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• probe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Pober, rebop

German

Pronunciation

Verb

probe

1. inflection of proben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Adjective

probe

1. feminine plural of probo

Latin

Adverb

prob? (comparative probius, superlative probissim?)

1. well, rightly, properly, correctly, fitly, opportunely, excellently

Adjective

probe

1. vocative masculine singular of probus

References

• probe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• probe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Adjective

probe (plural probes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pobre

English

Etymology

From Middle English h?den, from Old English h?dan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan? (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: he'd

Noun

heed (uncountable)

1. Careful attention.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

Usage notes

• Often used with give, pay or take.

Synonyms

• (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention

Translations

Verb

heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)

1. (obsolete) To guard, protect.
2. (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
   • 1567, John Dryden translating Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1

     With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.

   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):

     Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.

Translations

Anagrams

• ehed, hede

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?afod, from Proto-Germanic *haubud? (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??d/, /?h?v?d/, /?h??v?d/, /?h?vd/, /?h??vd/

Noun

heed (plural heedes)

1. head (top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck):
   1. The place where one's head rests (on a bed or when buried)
   2. That which covers the head; headwear or hair.
   3. The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
   4. horns, antlers (of a cervid)
2. The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
   1. boss, leader, executive
   2. capital city
3. start, origin
   1. The topmost end of a body of water or a geographical feature.
   2. One of the lengthwise ends of a geographic feature having more length than width.
   3. headwater
   4. The top end or peak of something; the uppermost point of something.
   5. The outermost extremity, point or projection of something.
4. The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
5. A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
6. One's ability to live (presumably as decapitation kills)
7. impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
8. (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
9. (rare) military force or troop

Alternative forms

• hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
• heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
• hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (early)

Related terms

• forheed
• heedles
• hoggeshed
• spere-hed

Adjective

heed

1. head

Descendants

• English: head
• Scots: heid
• Yola: haade, heade

References

• p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
• “h?d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.

Etymology 2

Noun

heed (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hed (“heed”)

Etymology 3

Verb

heed

1. Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)