<B>surveillant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who keeps watch over another or others. </DL>
<A NAME="surveille">
<B>surveille, </B>transitive verb, <B>-veilled,</B> <B>-veilling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to keep under surveillance; watch or guard closely. <BR> <I>Ex. From foregoing, [I] suspect we are surveilling wrong party (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>survey, </B>verb, noun, pl. <B>-veys.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to look over; view, examine, consider, or contemplate as a whole. <BR> <I>Ex. to survey accounts. Grandma surveyed me with a stern look. The buyers surveyed the goods offered for sale. (Figurative.) The mayor surveyed the situation before recommending action.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to measure for size, shape, position, or boundaries; use linear and angular measurements and apply geometric and trigonometric principles so as to construct a map, plan, or detailed description. <BR> <I>Ex. Men are surveying the land before it is divided into lots.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to survey land. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of viewing or considering something as a whole; general or comprehensive look; view; examination; inspection. <BR> <I>Ex. We were pleased with our first survey of the house. After a moment's survey of her face ... (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a comprehensive literary examination, discussion, or description. <BR> <I>Ex. a survey of contemporary poetry.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a formal or official inspection, study, or poll. <BR> <I>Ex. a survey of public opinion, a research center for business surveys.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a statement or description embodying the result of such examination. <BR> <I>Ex. a published survey of population trends.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the process of measuring for size, shape, position, or boundaries. <BR> <I>Ex. A survey of the property showed that the northern boundary was not correct.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a plan or description of such a measurement. <BR> <I>Ex. He pointed out the railroad on the government survey.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="surveyable">
<B>surveyable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be surveyed. </DL>
<A NAME="surveycourse">
<B>survey course,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Education.) an introductory course giving a general view of a subject. <BR> <I>Ex. required freshmen survey courses in the four-year colleges (Fred M. Hechinger).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="surveying">
<B>surveying, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process, act, or business of making surveys of land. <DD><B> 2. </B>mathematical instruction in the principles and art of making surveys. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyor">
<B>surveyor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who surveys, especially one who surveys land. <BR> <I>Ex. The surveyor set up his transit and began to make a survey of the road.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a customs official with the duty of determining the quantity or value of commodities brought into a port from another country. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) <DD><B> a. </B>a quantity surveyor. <DD><B> b. </B>(Archaic.) an architect, especially one in charge of construction. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorgeneral">
<B>surveyor general,</B> pl. <B>surveyors general,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a principal or head surveyor. <DD><B> 2. </B>an officer of the United States government who supervises the surveys of public lands. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorschain">
<B>surveyor's chain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a measuring instrument used by surveyors, consisting of 100 interlinked metal rods; Gunter's chain. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorscompass">
<B>surveyor's compass</B> or <B>dial,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for determining the horizontal direction of a line in reference to the direction of a magnetic needle. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorship">
<B>surveyorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position of a surveyor. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorslevel">
<B>surveyor's level,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument used by a surveyor to determine whether a surface is level; dumpy level. </DL>
<A NAME="surveyorsmeasure">
<B>surveyor's measure,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a system of measuring used by surveyors. In the United States, the unit is usually a chain 66 ft., or 20.1168 meters, long with links 7.92 in., or 20.1168 centimeters, long. <DL COMPACT><DD> 1 square link = 62.73 square inches <DL COMPACT><DD> or 404.709 square centimeters <DL COMPACT><DD> 625 square links = 1 square pole <DL COMPACT><DD> or 25.2920 square meters <DL COMPACT><DD> 16 square poles = 1 square chain <DL COMPACT><DD> or 404.6724 square meters <DL COMPACT><DD> 10 square chains = 1 acre <DL COMPACT><DD> or 0.4047 hectare <DL COMPACT><DD> 640 acres = 1 section or 1 square mile <DL COMPACT><DD> or 2.5899 square kilometers <DL COMPACT><DD> 36 sections = 1 township <DL COMPACT><DD> or 93.2364 square kilometers </DL>
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<A NAME="surview">
<B>surview, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a view, especially a mental view, of something; survey. </DL>
<A NAME="survivability">
<B>survivability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> capability of surviving or lasting. <BR> <I>Ex. retaliatory missile systems of high survivability (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="survivable">
<B>survivable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> capable of surviving or lasting. </DL>
<A NAME="survival">
<B>survival, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or fact of surviving; continuance of life; living or lasting longer than others. <BR> <I>Ex. No small number of what the English stigmatize as Americanisms are cases of survival from former good usage (William D. Whitney).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something that continues to exist after the cessation of something else, or of other things of the kind. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person, thing, custom, or belief that has lasted from an earlier time. <BR> <I>Ex. Belief in the evil eye is a survival of ancient magic. Thanksgiving Day is a survival from before the American Revolution.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="survivalkit">
<B>survival kit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> food, water, medicine and other emergency supplies, in a kit given to the crew of an airplane for use in case of a crash or forced landing. <BR> <I>Ex. They wore long cotton underwear ... winter flying gloves, wool socks, A-13A oxygen masks, B-5 parachutes, and carried A-1 survival kits (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="survivalofthefittest">
<B>survival of the fittest,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) the fact or the principle that those organisms which are best adapted to their environment continue to live and pass on their favorable features to their offspring, while those of the same or related species which are less adapted perish; the process or result of natural selection. </DL>
<A NAME="survivalvalue">
<B>survival value,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) usefulness of any part, characteristic, or function of an organism in enabling the organism to survive. <BR> <I>Ex. Over many generations certain genetically controlled characteristics tend to grow scarce within a population as others gradually replace them, owing to a difference in their survival values (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="survivance">
<B>survivance, </B>noun. =survival.</DL>
<A NAME="survive">
<B>survive, </B>verb, <B>-vived,</B> <B>-viving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to live longer than; outlive. <BR> <I>Ex. He survived his wife by three years.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to remain alive after; not die during. <BR> <I>Ex. Only ten of the crew survived the shipwreck. She survived a serious operation.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to sustain the effects of and continue to live; outlast. <BR> <I>Ex. The crops survived the drought.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to continue to live; remain alive; live on. <BR> <I>Ex. Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to continue to exist; remain; last on. <BR> <I>Ex. Books have survived from the time of the ancient Egyptians.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="surviving">
<B>surviving, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that survives: <DD><B> a. </B>still living after another's death. <DD><B> b. </B>still remaining after the cessation of something else. </DL>
<A NAME="survivor">
<B>survivor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person, animal, or plant that remains alive; thing that continues to exist. <BR> <I>Ex. He is the only survivor of a family of nine. There were two survivors from the plane crash.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) the one of two or more joint tenants or other persons with a joint interest in property who outlives the other or others. </DL>
<A NAME="survivorship">
<B>survivorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of a survivor, or the fact of one person surviving another or others, considered in relation to some right or privilege depending on such survival or the period of it. <DD><B> 2. </B>the right of the survivor or survivors of two or more joint tenants or other persons having a joint interest in property, to take the whole on the death of the other. </DL>
<A NAME="sus">
<B>sus-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (prefix.) the form of <B>sub-</B> sometimes before <I>c, p,</I> or <I>t,</I> as in <I>susceptible, suspend, sustain.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sus">
<B>Sus.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Susanna (book of the Apocrypha). </DL>
<A NAME="susanna">
<B>Susanna, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a character in the Old Testament Apocrypha. Susanna was accused of adultery but was proved innocent by Daniel's cross-examination of her accusers. <DD><B> 2. </B>the book of the Old Testament Apocrypha telling her story, included in the canon of the Greek and Roman Catholic Bibles as part of the Book of Daniel. (Abbr:) Sus. </DL>
<A NAME="susceptibility">
<B>susceptibility, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being susceptible; sensitiveness; sensibility. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Physics.) the capacity of a substance to be magnetized, measured by the ratio of the magnetization to the magnetizing force. <BR><I>expr. <B>susceptibilities,</B> </I>sensitive feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. Blunt susceptibilities are very consistent with strong propensities (Charlotte Bronte).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>susceptibility to,</B> </I>capability of receiving, being affected by, or undergoing. <BR> <I>Ex. a susceptibility to infection.</I> </DL>
