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View :: View (n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

Surview :: Surveyorship (n.) The office of a surveyor.

Surveying :: Surveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Surve.

Episcopy :: Episcopy (n.) Survey; superintendence.

Survey :: Survey (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above..

Resurvey :: Resurvey (v. t.) To survey again or anew; to review.

Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..

Profile :: Profile (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc..

Survise :: Surview (n.) A survey.

Chorometry :: Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.

Dialing :: Dialing (n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor..

Geodesy :: Geodesy (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast..

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..

Glance :: Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.

Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country..

Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark..

Surview :: Surview (v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.

Lineman :: Lineman (n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc..

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