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- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- 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).
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- The act of searching in general.
- 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
- 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.
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- 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.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- One who seeks.
- a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- 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.
- 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.
- (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
- (intransitive, marketing) To receive a certain response in market research.
- (transitive) To search again.
- inquire into
- attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
- 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
- (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
- 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.
- 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.
- A person who traces something.
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
- A person who scoops.
- Something that scoops.
- The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
- (aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.
- An engraver's tool.
- A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
- 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.
- a diligent effort
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
- a diligent effort
- persevering determination to perform a task
- conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- (Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
- 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).
- A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- One who explores something
- Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- 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).
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- The act of searching in general.
- 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
- 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.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- One who seeks.
- a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- 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.
- 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.
- A person who traces something.
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
- A person who scoops.
- Something that scoops.
- The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
- (aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.
- An engraver's tool.
- A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
- a diligent effort
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
- a diligent effort
- persevering determination to perform a task
- conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- (Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
- A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- One who explores something
- Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
- 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)
- 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
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- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
- 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).
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- 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.
- a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- search thoroughly
- To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
- steal goods; take as spoils
- 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.
- (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
- (intransitive, marketing) To receive a certain response in market research.
- (transitive) To search again.
- inquire into
- attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
- 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
- (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
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- The act of searching in general.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.