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verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- A look; a glance.
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
verb
noun
verb
- seek, search for
- oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- yaw back and forth about a flight path
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- chase away, with as with force
- search (an area) for prey
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
noun
- a careful systematic search
- a systematic consideration
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- The process of exploring.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
verb
- search thoroughly
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
- (chiefly passive voice) To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
noun
verb
- look furtively
- appear as though from hiding
- make high-pitched sounds
- cause to come into view
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
- To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
- To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
- (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To see, uncover.
- (intransitive) To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
- (transitive, slang) To take a look at; check out.
noun
- a secret look
- the short weak cry of a young bird
- A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
- The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.
- A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
- A feeble utterance or complaint.
- Alternative letter-case form of Peep
- (British, slang) A person.
- A peepshow.
- The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
noun
- One who searches.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- A sieve or strainer.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- (historical, medicine) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
- (UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- An implement for sampling butter.
- (historical, military) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities in its surface.
- (UK, historical) An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
- a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
verb
- look for and gather
- remove something that has been rejected
- To gather, collect.
- To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
- (by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
- To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
noun
- the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
- A selection.
- (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
- A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
- An organized killing of selected animals.
- (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
verb
- look for and gather
- remove in small bits
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- look for and gather
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- feel searchingly
- write down quickly without much attention to detail
- (transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
- (intransitive) To scribble.
- (intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- (transitive) To gather hastily.
- (intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
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verb
verb
noun
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
phrase
verb
- search or seek
- to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group
- convey by one's expression
- have faith or confidence in
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- accord in appearance with
- give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect
- To expect or anticipate.
- (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- (transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To appear, to seem.
- (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
- (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
noun
- physical appearance
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- A facial expression.
- (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
intj
verb
noun
- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- an investigation seeking answers
- An attempt to find something.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
- The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
- (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
- (engineering) Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
verb
noun
- Look.
- (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
- (informal) Grime or mud.
- (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).
- (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
- (slang) A dull or hapless person.
- any thick, viscous matter
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noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
noun
- An exhaustive search.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
verb
verb
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
noun
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
verb
noun
- (British, chiefly figurative, sometimes proscribed) A comb with finely spaced teeth, chiefly as a metaphorical means of making a thorough search.
- (zoology) A comb-like dental structure found in the lower jaws of certain primates consisting of long, flat front teeth with microscopic grooves, which are used for grooming fur.
verb
verb
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
noun
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
noun
- someone who comes upon something after searching
- someone who is the first to observe something
- optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest
- One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
noun
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- An improvised bed.
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
adj
verb
- look over carefully or inspect
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- hold a review (of troops)
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
noun
- someone making a search or inquiry
- a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- One who seeks.
- Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
noun
- a person who searches for something
- someone who hunts game
- a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
- A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.
- A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
- A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
- One who hunts or seeks after anything.
- A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
- One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
- (psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
verb
- make a wide, sweeping search of
- examine hastily
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- read metrically
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- examine minutely or intensely
- conform to a metrical pattern
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
noun
- the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- an image produced by scanning
- Of written things, a careful reading.
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
verb
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
noun
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
verb
- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
noun
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
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noun
noun
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
verb
- search haphazardly
- (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
- (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly.
noun
- a jumble of things to be given away
- a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
verb
verb
- go in search of or hunt for
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- carry further or advance
- (intransitive) To act as a legal prosecutor.
- (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
- (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
- (ambitransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
noun
- a careful systematic search
- a systematic consideration
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- The process of exploring.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
noun
- One who searches.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- A sieve or strainer.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- (historical, medicine) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
- (UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- An implement for sampling butter.
- (historical, military) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities in its surface.
- (UK, historical) An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
- a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
noun
verb
noun
- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- an investigation seeking answers
- An attempt to find something.
verb
- seek, search for
- oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- yaw back and forth about a flight path
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- chase away, with as with force
- search (an area) for prey
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
- The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
- (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
- (engineering) Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
verb
noun
- Look.
- (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
- (informal) Grime or mud.
- (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).
- (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
- (slang) A dull or hapless person.
- any thick, viscous matter
noun
adj
verb
noun
- An exhaustive search.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
verb
noun
- someone who comes upon something after searching
- someone who is the first to observe something
- optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest
- One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
noun
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- An improvised bed.
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
adj
noun
- someone making a search or inquiry
- a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- One who seeks.
- Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
noun
- a person who searches for something
- someone who hunts game
- a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
- A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.
- A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
- A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
- One who hunts or seeks after anything.
- A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
- One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
- (psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
verb
noun
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- A look; a glance.
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
noun
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
verb
noun
verb
- look searchingly
- To make equal in rank.
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
noun
- A look; a glance.
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
- A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
verb
noun
verb
- seek, search for
- oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- yaw back and forth about a flight path
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- chase away, with as with force
- search (an area) for prey
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
verb
- search thoroughly
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
- (chiefly passive voice) To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
noun
verb
- look furtively
- appear as though from hiding
- make high-pitched sounds
- cause to come into view
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
- To speak briefly with a quiet voice.
- To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
- (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To see, uncover.
- (intransitive) To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.
- (transitive, slang) To take a look at; check out.
noun
- a secret look
- the short weak cry of a young bird
- A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
- The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.
- A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
- A feeble utterance or complaint.
- Alternative letter-case form of Peep
- (British, slang) A person.
- A peepshow.
- The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
verb
- look for and gather
- remove something that has been rejected
- To gather, collect.
- To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
- (by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
- To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
noun
- the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
- A selection.
- (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
- A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
- An organized killing of selected animals.
- (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
verb
- look for and gather
- remove in small bits
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- look for and gather
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- feel searchingly
- write down quickly without much attention to detail
- (transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
- (intransitive) To scribble.
- (intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- (transitive) To gather hastily.
- (intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
verb
- search or seek
- to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group
- convey by one's expression
- have faith or confidence in
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- accord in appearance with
- give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect
- To expect or anticipate.
- (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- (transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To appear, to seem.
- (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
- (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
noun
- physical appearance
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- A facial expression.
- (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
intj
verb
noun
- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- an investigation seeking answers
- An attempt to find something.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
noun
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
verb
noun
- (British, chiefly figurative, sometimes proscribed) A comb with finely spaced teeth, chiefly as a metaphorical means of making a thorough search.
- (zoology) A comb-like dental structure found in the lower jaws of certain primates consisting of long, flat front teeth with microscopic grooves, which are used for grooming fur.
verb
verb
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
noun
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
verb
- look over carefully or inspect
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- hold a review (of troops)
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
verb
- make a wide, sweeping search of
- examine hastily
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- read metrically
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- examine minutely or intensely
- conform to a metrical pattern
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
noun
- the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- an image produced by scanning
- Of written things, a careful reading.
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
verb
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
noun
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
verb
- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
noun
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
verb
noun
verb
- search haphazardly
- (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
- (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly.
noun
- a jumble of things to be given away
- a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
verb
verb
- go in search of or hunt for
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- carry further or advance
- (intransitive) To act as a legal prosecutor.
- (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
- (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
- (ambitransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).