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- Initialism of lesbian female.
- (computing) Initialism of line feed.
- (architecture, engineering, construction) Initialism of linear feet.
- (linguistics) Initialism of logical form.
- (electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of low frequency.
- (optics, imaging, photography) Abbreviation of light field.
- Initialism of left foot.
- (baseball) Initialism of left field or left fielder.
- 30 to 300 kilohertz
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- Initialism of to be discovered.
- Initialism of to be determined.
- Initialism of to be done.
- Initialism of to be defined.
- Initialism of to be derived.
- Initialism of to be documented.
- Initialism of to be disclosed.
- Initialism of to be deducted.
- Initialism of to be declared.
- Initialism of to be decided.
- Initialism of to be developed.
- Initialism of to be destroyed.
- Initialism of to be dated.
- Initialism of to be delivered.
- Initialism of to be discussed.
- Initialism of to be designed.
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- An instance of seeking something.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- the act of searching for something
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- (video games, roleplaying games) A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- (education) A short test.
verb
- (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
- search the trail of (game)
- express the need or desire for
- bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
- make a search (for)
- seek alms, as for religious purposes
- (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
- (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
noun
- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- An attempt to find something.
- 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
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- (photography) A measure of film sensitivity or brightness, derived from the ISO standard.
- (file format) A disk image of an ISO 9660 file system (such as a CD or DVD); also used as the file extension for such a file.
- (music, derogatory) Initialism of instrument-shaped object, used to refer to a musical instrument that is of very low quality.
- (finance) Initialism of incentive stock option.
- Initialism of information security officer.
- Initialism of Imperial Service Order.
noun
- Initialism of in order to.
- (music, MIDI) Initialism of in-out-through.
- (computing) Initialism of interoperability testing, a process of testing to determine the interoperability of a software product.
- (computing) Initialism of input-output transfer, instructions for computers as in the PDP-8.
- (electronics) Initialism of inductive output tube.
- (computing) Initialism of index-organized table, a type of database's table where the data is stored in a B-tree index structure.
- (business, telecommunications) Initialism of interoperator tariff.
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- (baseball) Initialism of strike out.
- (sports) Initialism of shut out.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of singlet oxygen.
- Initialism of significant other.
- (sports) Initialism of shootout.
- (logic, computer science) Initialism of second-order logic.
- (politics, parliamentary) Abbreviation of standing order.
- (music) Initialism of symphony orchestra.
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out.
- To be facing.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
- (informal, intransitive) Ellipsis of look out for (someone)
- (African-American Vernacular) To be supportive or protective of someone.
- to protect someone's interests
- be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful
verb
- (ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
- try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
- (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
- (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a data stream.
- try to get or reach
- inquire for
- go to or towards
- make an effort or attempt
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- (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- (transitive) To point out.
- (transitive) To meet with; to receive.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- (ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
- (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.
- obtain through effort or management
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- get or find back; recover the use of
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- decide on and make a declaration about
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- In pursuit of, seeking.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- Subsequently to and considering.
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- (Ireland, Newfoundland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.
- (in reduplicative expressions) Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
- Subsequently to and in spite of.
- Behind.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to and as a result of.
- (often with verbs related to cleaning or tidying) Subsequently to the actions of (someone), in order to remedy a situation.
- Below, often next below, in importance or rank.
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noun
- A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted.
- A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.
- A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee.
- A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner
- (CB slang) A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps).
- A tout.
- a gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds
verb
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
- seek, search for
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
- 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
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)
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- 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
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- Something discovered.
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.
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- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- To make equal in rank.
- (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.
- look searchingly
noun
- A look; a glance.
- 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).
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
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- (intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
- (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
- (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
- (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
- advertize in strongly positive terms
- show off
noun
- Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
- (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
- (colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
- A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
- someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
- someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
- one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
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- (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- 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.
- to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group
- search or seek
- 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
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- A facial expression.
- (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
- 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
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- (intransitive) To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- (transitive) To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
- (transitive) To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- (ambitransitive, now Southeastern US) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- (ambitransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- (transitive) To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- (transitive) To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
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- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
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
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- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
noun
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
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- (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
- (transitive, idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- (transitive) To uncover a weakness in (someone).
- (transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To receive the consequences of one's actions.
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act
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- (grand strategy video games) Initialism of great power.
- (slang) Initialism of general principle.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) Initialism of gold piece.
- (Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.
- (countable, astronomy) Abbreviation of green pea galaxy.
- (countable, healthcare) Initialism of general practitioner.
- (uncountable, slang) Initialism of general public.
- (uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.
- (countable) Initialism of guinea pig.
- (sports) Initialism of games played.
- a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses
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
- 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
noun
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
- a small distance
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- (idiomatic) Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- The tip of an object.
- (idiomatic, also followed by around or about) The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop
- (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- (perfumery) A perfumer.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- (by extension) Skill at finding information.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- (slang) An informer.
- The sense of smell.
verb
- defeat by a narrow margin
- push or move with the nose
- catch the scent of; get wind of
- rub noses
- advance the forward part of with caution
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, also followed by around or about, in which case, ambitransitive) To snoop.
- (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- (intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
- (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
noun
- An instance of seeking something.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- the act of searching for something
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- (video games, roleplaying games) A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- (education) A short test.
verb
- (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
- search the trail of (game)
- express the need or desire for
- bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
- make a search (for)
- seek alms, as for religious purposes
- (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
- (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
noun
- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- An attempt to find something.
- 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
verb
noun
- Initialism of in order to.
- (music, MIDI) Initialism of in-out-through.
- (computing) Initialism of interoperability testing, a process of testing to determine the interoperability of a software product.
- (computing) Initialism of input-output transfer, instructions for computers as in the PDP-8.
- (electronics) Initialism of inductive output tube.
- (computing) Initialism of index-organized table, a type of database's table where the data is stored in a B-tree index structure.
- (business, telecommunications) Initialism of interoperator tariff.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- (transitive) To point out.
- (transitive) To meet with; to receive.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- (ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
- (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.
- obtain through effort or management
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- get or find back; recover the use of
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- decide on and make a declaration about
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
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- Something discovered.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
- seek, search for
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
- 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
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
- a symbol of inquisitiveness
- a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
- the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- a natural skill
- a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
- a small distance
- the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
- (idiomatic) Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- The tip of an object.
- (idiomatic, also followed by around or about) The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop
- (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- (perfumery) A perfumer.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- (by extension) Skill at finding information.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- (slang) An informer.
- The sense of smell.
verb
- defeat by a narrow margin
- push or move with the nose
- catch the scent of; get wind of
- rub noses
- advance the forward part of with caution
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, also followed by around or about, in which case, ambitransitive) To snoop.
- (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- (intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
- (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
verb
adj
noun
- Initialism of lesbian female.
- (computing) Initialism of line feed.
- (architecture, engineering, construction) Initialism of linear feet.
- (linguistics) Initialism of logical form.
- (electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of low frequency.
- (optics, imaging, photography) Abbreviation of light field.
- Initialism of left foot.
- (baseball) Initialism of left field or left fielder.
- 30 to 300 kilohertz
prep_phrase
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out.
- To be facing.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
- (informal, intransitive) Ellipsis of look out for (someone)
- (African-American Vernacular) To be supportive or protective of someone.
- to protect someone's interests
- be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful
verb
- (ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
- try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
- (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
- (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a data stream.
- try to get or reach
- inquire for
- go to or towards
- make an effort or attempt
noun
noun
- the act of searching for something
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- (video games, roleplaying games) A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- (education) A short test.
verb
- (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
- search the trail of (game)
- express the need or desire for
- bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
- make a search (for)
- seek alms, as for religious purposes
- (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
- (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
verb
noun
- A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted.
- A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.
- A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee.
- A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner
- (CB slang) A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps).
- A tout.
- a gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds
verb
- (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
- seek, search for
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A hunting expedition.
- The act of hunting.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- To make equal in rank.
- (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.
- look searchingly
noun
- A look; a glance.
- 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).
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
verb
- (intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
- (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
- (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
- (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
- (UK, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
- advertize in strongly positive terms
- show off
noun
- Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
- (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
- (colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
- A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
- someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
- someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
- one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
verb
- (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- 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.
- to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group
- search or seek
- 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
intj
noun
- A facial expression.
- (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
- 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
verb
- (intransitive) To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- (transitive) To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
- (transitive) To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- (ambitransitive, now Southeastern US) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- (ambitransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- (transitive) To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- (transitive) To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
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
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
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- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
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- (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
- (transitive, idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- (transitive) To uncover a weakness in (someone).
- (transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To receive the consequences of one's actions.
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act
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- The act of searching in general.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- An attempt to find something.
- 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
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
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- (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
- 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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- (grand strategy video games) Initialism of great power.
- (slang) Initialism of general principle.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) Initialism of gold piece.
- (Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.
- (countable, astronomy) Abbreviation of green pea galaxy.
- (countable, healthcare) Initialism of general practitioner.
- (uncountable, slang) Initialism of general public.
- (uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.
- (countable) Initialism of guinea pig.
- (sports) Initialism of games played.
- a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses