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Definition of inspection noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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• 2 the act of looking closely at something or someone, especially to check that everything is as it should be synonym examination The documents are available for inspection . On closer inspection , the notes proved to be forgeries. Engineers carried out a thorough inspection of the track.

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• Thread starter ridgemao
• Start date Oct 3, 2017

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• Oct 3, 2017

Hello, everyone: We travelled by train in the night, every passenger has a bed, but my daughter was too excited to sleep, so I told her: There is a night security guard in the train, he makes an inspection tour of every railway car(i.e., he goes into every car to check the passenger), and he takes the passenger away if the passenger does not sleep. Is it correct to say " makes an inspection tour " in this context? Or do you have a better way to say it? Thank you.  

Yes, sounds OK.  

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inspection noun [C, U] ( OFFICIAL )

Inspection noun [c, u] ( examination ).

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noun as in examination, check

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Passengers were asked to make sure their phones and other devices were charged so that they could be switched on for inspection.

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“There has been no visible progress of oil removal,” he said in the April 2012 inspection report.

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The house, like every obvious manifestation of Palmer, is ready for a full-dress inspection.

Besides, that inspection did not pertain to me, since I was neither the oldest nor the most recent auditor.

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I expect to see you in London soon, and then will give you the plan for inspection before I put it in practice.

A serjeant enlisted a recruit, who on inspection turned out to be a woman.

I have a small engine now at foundry, and would put it on board one of their barges for your inspection.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

: the act of looking at something closely in order to learn more about it, to find problems, etc. : the act of inspecting something

: an official visit to a school, hospital, etc., in order to see if rules are being followed and things are in their proper condition

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FILE - Japan’s Prince Hiro, right, talks with a fellow student at Oxford University when he and other students were welcomed to the university at a matriculation ceremony, on Oct. 15, 1983. Naruhito and the Empress Masako, who studied at Oxford a few years after her husband, wrapped up a weeklong trip to Britain on Friday. Their itinerary combined the glitter and ceremony of a state visit with four days of less formal events that gave the royal couple an opportunity to revisit their personal connections to Britain. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp, File)

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LONDON (AP) — Before Emperor Naruhito of Japan hopped into a horse-drawn carriage with King Charles III , laid a wreath at Westminster Abbey or toured one of Britain’s premier biomedical research institutes, he kicked off his trip to the U.K. by visiting a site that has special meaning for him: The Thames Barrier.

While the massive flood control gates on the River Thames don’t top most lists of must-see tourist sights, the stopover underscored the emperor’s fascination with the waterway that is the throbbing heart of London.

Britain’s King Charles III, left and Japans Emperor Naruhito ride in a one carriage during the ceremonial welcome for the State Visit to Britain of the Emperor and Empress, in London, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, Pool, File)

That interest was born 40 years ago when Naruhito studied 18th-century commerce on the river as a graduate student at the University of Oxford. But those two years, chronicled in his memoir “The Thames and I,” also forged a special fondness for Britain and its people. The future emperor got his first chance to live outside the palace walls, marveling at the kindness of strangers who rushed to help when he dropped his purse, scattering coins across a shop floor, and experiencing traditions like the great British pub crawl.

“It would be impossible in Japan to go to a place where hardly anyone would know who I was,’’ Naruhito wrote. “It is really important and precious to have the opportunity to be able to go privately at one’s own pace where one wants.’’

Naruhito and the Empress Masako, who studied at Oxford a few years after her husband, wrapped up a weeklong trip to Britain on Friday. Their itinerary combined the glitter and ceremony of a state visit with four days of less formal events that gave the royal couple an opportunity to revisit their personal connections to Britain.

The visit came at a time when the U.K. is seeking to bolster ties with Japan as it aims to be the most influential European nation in the Indo-Pacific region, said John Nilsson-Wright, the head of the Japan and Koreas program at the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. In October 2020, Britain touted an economic partnership with Japan as the first major international trade agreement it had struck since leaving the European Union earlier that year.

“The U.K.-Japan relationship is hugely important. … It’s based on shared common experience. It’s based also on the affinity between our two peoples,’’ Nilsson-Wright said. “Britain and Japan can act as a source of stability and, hopefully, mutual reassurance at a time when political change is so potentially destabilizing.”

The trip, originally planned for 2020, was intended to be the emperor’s first overseas visit after he ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne the previous year. But it was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of Queen Elizabeth II , although he did attend her funeral.

The state visit began Tuesday, when Charles and Queen Camilla formally welcomed the emperor and empress, then accompanied them on a ceremonial carriage ride to Buckingham Palace. Naruhito later laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey before returning to the palace for a state banquet.

But before the pomp and circumstance, Naruhito donned a blue hard hat and toured the Thames Barrier, a series of retractable steel gates that protect London from flooding while allowing ships to continue navigating the river. After the state visit, he and his wife toured their old colleges at Oxford.

It was at Merton College that the future emperor, who was born Hironomiya Naruhito, was known simply as Hiro because it was easier for faculty and students to remember (and because the prince liked the sound of it), he wrote in “The Thames and I.”

One of his greatest joys at Merton was to go to the Middle Common Room, a meeting place for graduate students, to drink coffee and talk with other students after lunch.

“These moments, with my fellow students, brief as they were, were very important for me,’’ Naruhito wrote.

Among those students was Keith George, an American law student from West Virginia who lived next door to Naruhito. George jokingly described their relationship as the prince and the pauper, as he was a 22-year-old “Appalachian hillbilly.”

Yet he treasures a framed photograph snapped by Associated Press photographer Peter Kemp on the day they met. Both are wearing white tie and academic gowns. And they are laughing.

“It was authentic. It was not contrived,″ George said. “Yes, when I met him the first time ... you can’t help from being completely aware of the fact that this is the Crown Prince, eventually to be the emperor of Japan. But once the dust settles on that note ... it all goes back to: Are you genuine friends or not? We were.”

And they still are.

FILE - Japan’s Prince Hiro, right, talks with a fellow student at Oxford University when he and other students were welcomed to the university at a matriculation ceremony, on Oct. 15, 1983. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp, File)

Britain in the 1980s was a revelation to Naruhito because the country seemed to respect the past even as it embraced the future, he wrote in his memoir, recalling the peaceful co-existence of scholars in traditional caps and gowns with young people wearing punk rock garb.

“I did not feel that was out of the ordinary,’’ Naruhito wrote. “It seemed to me that both reflected the spirit of the place. This was, after all, a country which produced the Beatles and the miniskirt. I felt that while the British attach importance to old traditions, they also have the ability to innovate.’’

Naruhito also wrote about the novelty of walking through the streets of Oxford without being noticed, of spending hours in the local records office doing his academic research and of having the chance to do his own shopping and other mundane chores that most people take for granted.

And he remembered climbing a hill northeast of the city just to take in the view.

“It was best toward sunset,’’ he wrote. “I can never forget the moment when the silhouettes of the spires of Oxford one by one caught the evening light and seemed to float above the mists. This mystical sight, which has aroused so much admiration, is called Oxford’s dreaming spires.’’

But behind it all there was always the River Thames, which flows southeast from Oxford to London before emptying into the North Sea.

“I think perhaps (what) it symbolized to him was a combination of beauty and freedom,” George said.

Naruhito began studying river commerce as a boy when Japan’s roads and rivers offered a glimpse of travel and freedom outside the confines of the palace. So when he arrived in Oxford, it was logical to study the Thames.

Looking back at the research he did 40 years ago, Naruhito is flooded with nostalgia.

“The memories of my time with the Thames come back to me,’’ he told reporters in Tokyo before visiting Britain. “The list goes on and on, including my hard work in collecting historical materials … the beautiful scenery around me that healed me from my fatigue from research, and the days I jogged along the river.’’

Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi and Mayuko Ono in Tokyo contributed.