Engelsk navneord: search | |||
1. | search (om handling) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | hunt, hunting | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | activity | ||
Mere specifikke termer | exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, ransacking, rummage, scouring, seeking, shakedown | ||
2. | search (om handling) an investigation seeking answers | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing. The outcome justified the search. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | investigating, investigation | ||
3. | search (om proces) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They wrote a program to do a table lookup. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | lookup | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | operation | ||
4. | search (om erkendelse) the examination of alternative hypotheses | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | higher cognitive process | ||
Mere specifikke termer | hunt, pursuance, pursuit, quest | ||
5. | search (om handling) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Right of search. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | examination, scrutiny | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: search | |||
1. | search (om relation) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The police are searching for clues. They are searching for the missing man in the entire county. | ||
Eksempler på anvendelse | The banks search the check, Sam cannot search Sue , They search the water | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | look for, seek | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mere specifikke termer | angle, browse, browse, divine, drag, dredge, feel, finger, fish, fumble, gather, go after, grope, grub, hunt, leave no stone unturned, pursue, quest after, quest for, scour, seek out, shop, surf, want | ||
2. | search (om opfattelse) search or seek | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest. Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!. | ||
Eksempler på anvendelse | The men search the area for animals , The men search for animals in the area | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | look | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | examine, see | ||
Mere specifikke termer | cruise, horn in, hunt, intrude, nose, poke, prospect, pry | ||
3. | search (om erkendelse) inquire into | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project. He searched for information on his relatives on the web. Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | explore, research | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | investigate, look into | ||
Mere specifikke termer | beat about, cast about, cast around, google, mapquest, prospect, re-explore | ||
4. | search (om relation) subject to a search | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The police searched the suspect. We searched the whole house for the missing keys. | ||
Eksempler på anvendelse | They want to search the prisoners | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | examine, see | ||
Mere specifikke termer | comb, frisk, go, raid, ransack, rifle, rummage, scan, strip-search | ||