Associations to the word «Surveying»

Wiktionary

SURVEYING, noun. The science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
SURVEYING, verb. Present participle of survey

Dictionary definition

SURVEYING, noun. The practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map; "he studied surveying at college".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats