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プローブ
1. [n]
▶ probe
▶ inquiry
▶ investigation
▶ close examination
2. [n]
▶ probe (device; electric, magnetic, sonic, etc.)
3. [n] {medicine}
▶ probe
▶ sound
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2071640 ゾンデ 1. probe; sound
4. [n] {biochemistry}
▶ probe
▶ probing molecule



History:
2. A 2025-09-17 15:12:33  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2025-09-17 09:59:16  Sombrero1
  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
  Comments:
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
  Diff:
@@ -9,0 +10,19 @@
+<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>

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