to look at (a person, thing) carefully in order to learn something; to put questions to (a person) in order to test knowledge or get information
analyse, test
Cases of word usage
1) a person whose profession is to keep and examine business accounts (accountant)
2) to examine (a thing) carefully in order to learn something about it (analyse)
3) (especially) an official with authority to examine books, magazines, plays, films etc and to remove anything regarded as immortal or in other ways undesirable (censor)
4) to examine and make a careful comparison between (manuscripts, books etc) (collate)
5) to examine and argue about (a subject) (discuss)
6) to examine (details) carefully; to visit (a school, office etc) to see if the organization is running well and work is done properly (inspect)
7) to consider or examine (something) again; to write a review about (a book, play etc); to inspect (soldiers etc) formally (review)
8) to examine (something) closely; to search through (stored information) to find a particular part; to use special equipment to examine (a person) for internal disease (scan)
9) an electronic device used to examine a person for internal disease (scanner)
10) to examine carefully (a person, a person's clothes, inside furniture, a place etc) (in order to find a person or thing) (search)