surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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(noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
(verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
(verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
(verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
(verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
(verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
surveying | (noun) the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map | - |
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surveyor | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | - |
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(noun) someone who conducts a statistical survey | - |
survival | (noun) something that survives | - |
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(noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest |
(noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: endurance |
survivalist | (noun) someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation | - |
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survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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(verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
(verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
(verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
surviving | (adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: living |
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survivor | (noun) an animal that survives in spite of adversity | - |
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(noun) one who outlives another | - |
(noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: subsister |