Synonyms for surveying
sərˈveɪ ɪŋsur·vey·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. surveyingnoun

   the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

   "he studied surveying at college"

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1. • Measurement

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1. surveyingnoun

   Synonyms:
   SURVEY

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1. surveyingnoun

   Synonyms:
   survey, chorometry, geodesy

   Associated words:
   theodolite, transit, perambulator

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1. List of paraphrases for "surveying":

   topography, survey, topographic, geodesy, surveys, prospecting, measurements

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1. Truong Nguyen:

   In 22 years of surveying reptiles in Vietnam, I have collected only six odd-scaled snakes, this is one of the most poorly studied groups of reptiles.

2. Samuel Johnson:

   There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

3. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna:

   Before software and satellites, we had to use traditional maps or plans, obtained after local surveying, and equations to determine the solar [angles] and draw them on maps. In fact, the use of satellites [makes] this work very fast and visually attractive.

4. Historic England:

   Divers surveying The SMS Grosser Kurfürst have confirmed that The SMS Grosser Kurfürst lies on the seabed upside-down, which is the way that it sank.

5. Mannik Kummar:

   Any ranking number in world leaders is possible for getting to a person who has money to give it to the people in media and surveying agency.