survey - noun

a detailed critical inspection

short descriptive summary (of events)

the act of looking or seeing or observing

survey - verb

• consider in a comprehensive way
• look over carefully or inspect
• keep under surveillance
• hold a review (of troops)
• make a survey of; for statistical purposes
• plot a map of (land)

survey - thesaurus

appraise   follow   resume   review   sight   sketch   study   surveil   view