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Explain how the Word "SURVEYOR" derived,

Posted by Lalith Senanayake on March 16, 2016 at 12:01pm in Land Surveying Industry Talk
Hi Friends,The definition of "SURVEYOR" and the word used to define surveyor diferrent from country to country,In Sri Lanka we call "MININDORU" in sinhala Language,and in Tamil language,"ULANDA"Please let us know it from your Language
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  • Muhammad Junaid April 9, 2016 at 12:55pm

    In Turkey Topograph

  • Hank Philoss Chams March 21, 2016 at 6:37am

    im from RDCongo, we have 4 national languages, 1 official language ( french)  and more than 300 traditional languages. each athnic group has its own traditional language.

    I speak two languages, in french we call " géomètre topographe", " topographer mpimaji" in swahili

    The surveyor uses various means and methods, geometry, optics, to perform height measurements and planimetric in any field.

    • Billy Brooks > Hank Philoss Chams March 21, 2016 at 9:34am

      bonjour hank, parlez-vous français,, je parle un peu. ceci est votre ami billy. je parle Chicasaw et cherokee. mais aucun swahili il y a 500 natif language.some américain ne sont pas écrites. , Avez-vous appris quelque chose sur le calculator.talk à vous plus tard i besoin de sommeil.

      votre ami billy

      • Hank Philoss Chams > Billy Brooks March 21, 2016 at 12:41pm

        Bonjour Belly,

        je suis très ravis de te lire en français,

        merci pour ton assistance; j'apprend du jour au jour la calculatrice.

        ton ami hank

    • Lalith Senanayake > Hank Philoss Chams March 21, 2016 at 9:17am
      Nice
      • Lalith Senanayake > Lalith Senanayake March 21, 2016 at 9:31am
        Hi Chams,
        I would like to see how surveyor is been called in all 300 languages if you can compile.
        Thanks,
        Lalith
  • David García Bodego March 20, 2016 at 6:38am

    In Spanish we are called like in Greece: "Topógrafos". It comes from "topos" than means "ground, place" and "grafia" that means "draw", so the one who draw the ground, the one who draws the reality.

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    J. Anthony Cavell March 19, 2016 at 11:26pm

    A surveyor is one who performs a survey. A survey implies one has access to a whole population of data from which a representation is interpolated. (A survey is NOT a poll. A poll involves accessing a small sample of the whole population from which a representation is, hopefully, extrapolated.)

    Literally the word "survey" means to oversee - in our case to "see over". From the etymology dictionary I got the following.

    surveyor (n.) early 15c. (late 14c. as a surname), from Anglo-French surveiour "guard, overseer," Old French sorveor, from Old French verb sorveoir "to survey" (see survey (v.)).
        
    survey (n.) late 15c., survei, "oversight, supervision," from survey (v.). The meaning "act of viewing in detail" is from 1540s. Meaning "systematic collection of data on opinions, etc." is attested from 1927.

    survey (v.) c. 1400, "to consider, contemplate," from Anglo-French surveier, Old French sorveoir "look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch," from Medieval Latin supervidere "oversee" (see supervise). Meaning "examine the condition of" is from mid-15c. That of "to take linear measurements of a tract of ground" is recorded from 1540s. Related: Surveyed; surveying; surveyance (late 14c.).  

     

    Some pollsters claim when they take and retake a poll over time it becomes a survey. Authentic surveyors ought to point out the error of that every chance they can.

    Measuring (mensuration) is NOT necessary to a survey but is usually an important technical component.

    JAC

    P.S. A Surveyor is NEVER "just a surveyor"!!!

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