<entry id="2348077" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1117040</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>プローブ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>probe</gloss>
<gloss>inquiry</gloss>
<gloss>investigation</gloss>
<gloss>close examination</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>probe (device; electric, magnetic, sonic, etc.)</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<field>&med;</field>
<gloss>probe</gloss>
<gloss>sound</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<field>&biochem;</field>
<gloss>probe</gloss>
<gloss>probing molecule</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2025-09-17 09:59:16" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_detl>This turned out to be more diffult than I had expected.
I think this should cover all senses.

Sense 3 and 4 are not really accurately lumpable into sense two

Not applying xrefs yet since all entries in question have pending edits now, will do after first approval</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 探針　　 │  19,626 │ 10.1% │
│ 消息子　 │     177 │  0.1% │
│ プローブ │ 160,010 │ 82.5% │
│ ゾンデ　 │  14,256 │  7.3% │
╰─ーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
Daijs, daijr, Koj, GG5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -9,0 +10,19 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;inquiry&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;investigation&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;close examination&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;probe (device; electric, magnetic, sonic, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;med;&lt;/field&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;probe&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;sound&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;biochem;&lt;/field&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;probe&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;probing molecule&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-09-17 15:12:33" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>