If you carry out a survey, you try to find out detailed information about a lot of different people or things, usually by asking people a series of questions.

If you survey a number of people, companies, or organizations, you try to find out information about their opinions or behaviour, usually by asking them a series of questions.

If you survey something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully.

If you give something a brief survey or a quick survey, you look at or consider all of it quickly, but not in detail.

If someone carries out a survey of an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it.

If someone surveys an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it.

A survey is a careful examination of the condition and structure of a house, usually carried out in order to give information to a person who wants to buy it.

If someone surveys a house, they examine it carefully and report on its structure, usually in order to give advice to a person who is thinking of buying it.