Sonde vs. Probe — What's the Difference?

Any of various instruments, such as a radiosonde, used for measuring or testing physical conditions.

A blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.

(medicine) Probe; sound.

A thorough investigation into a crime or other matter

(physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations.

An unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transmit information about its environment.

A projecting device for engaging in a drogue, either on an aircraft for use in in-flight refuelling or on a spacecraft for use in docking with another craft.

Physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument

A slender, flexible surgical instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity.

An electrode or other device that can be placed inside something to take and convey measurements.

A substance, such as DNA, that is radioactively labeled or otherwise marked and used to detect or identify another substance in a sample.

A space probe.

An exploratory action or expedition, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region

The act of exploring or searching with a device or instrument

An investigation into unfamiliar matters or questionable activities; a penetrating inquiry

To penetrate or explore physically, especially with a probe, in order to find or discover something

To investigate by means of a chemical probe.

To make an inquiry about (something); investigate or examine

To subject (a person) to questioning; interrogate.

To make a physical search, especially by penetrating with a probe

To pose questions or conduct an investigation

(surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

(figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.

An act of probing; a prod, a poke.

(figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.

(aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.

(sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.

(astronautics) A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.

(game of go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy

(biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure

(ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, or question

(transitive) To insert a probe into.

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.

An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities;

A flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities

An exploratory action or expedition

An investigation conducted using a probe instrument

Question or examine thoroughly and closely

Examine physically with or as if with a probe;