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单词 search
释义
search
(sɜːʳtʃ )
Word forms: searches , searching , searched
1. verb B1
If you search for something or someone, you look carefully for them.
The Turkish security forces have started searching for the missing men. [VERB + for]
They searched for a spot where they could sit on the floor. [VERB for noun]
Nonetheless there are signs that both sides may be searching for a compromise. [VERB + for]
[Also VERB]
2. verb B2
If you search a place, you look carefully for something or someone there.
Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday. [VERB noun]
She searched her desk for the necessary information. [VERB noun + for]
Relief workers are still searching through collapsed buildings looking for victims. [VERB preposition]
Synonyms: examine, check, investigate, explore  
3. countable noun B1
A search is an attempt to find something or someone by looking for them carefully.
There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned.
Egypt has said there is no time to lose in the search for a Middle East settlement. [+ for]
Synonyms: hunt, look, inquiry, investigation  
4. verb B2
If a police officer or someone else in authority searches you, they look carefully to see whether you have something hidden on you.
The man took her suitcase from her and then searched her. [VERB noun]
His first task was to search them for weapons. [VERB noun + for]
Synonyms: inspect, check, examine, frisk [informal]  
5. verb B1
If you search for information on a computer, you give the computer an instruction to find that information. [computing]
You can use a directory service to search for people on the internet. [VERB + for]
Search is also a noun.
He was doing a computer search of local news articles. [+ of]
Google long ago identified mobile search as the sector for growth.
6.  See also searching, strip-search
7. in search of phrase B2
If you go in search of something or someone, you try to find them.
Miserable, and unexpectedly lonely, she went in search of Jean-Paul.
The law already denies entry to people in search of better economic opportunities.
Synonyms: seeking, looking for, hunting for, in pursuit of  
8. search me convention
You say ' search me' when someone asks you a question and you want to emphasize that you do not know the answer. [informal, emphasis]
'So why did he get interested all of a sudden?'—'Search me.'
Phrasal verbs:
search out
phrasal verb B2
If you search something out, you keep looking for it until you find it.
Traditional Spanish food is delicious and its specialities are worth searching out. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
Many people want jobs. They try to search them out every day. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Idioms:
search high and low for something or hunt high and low for something
to look for something very carefully and thoroughly, looking in every possible place that it could be
I've hunted high and low for the photos, but I've moved since then and I can't find them.
Collocations:
computer search
This algorithm advanced certain computer search techniques and has certain other applications.
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Valiant found these two problems by a computer search that looked for problems with holographic reductions to matchgates.
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The discovery of these formulae involves a computer search for such linear combinations after computing the individual sums.
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Computer search methods and antenna simulations are commonly used to identify which fractal antenna designs best meet the need of the application.
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The opposite problem occurs with small squares: a computer search will produce millions of examples, most of which use at least one obscure word.
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search a suspect
To varying degrees each category carries the power to arrest and search a suspect or premises.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't it to the police question or search the suspect.
The Sun
But to intervene means using force to search the suspect, which could be misinterpreted.
Times, Sunday Times
Because cops seek permission from an inspector before stopping and searching a suspect, it often means checks are not being carried out.
The Sun
One was shouted at and spat on while searching a suspect.
The Sun
search a vehicle
After a group of suspected burglars were brought in, the investigators received a warrant to search a vehicle that was linked the suspects.
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Only then are police officers allowed to go back and search a vehicle incident to a suspect's arrest.
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He then drove to the prison's gate where he knew, out of experience, that the guard would not search his vehicle.
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Officers searched the vehicle and found the empty tins before asking him to provide a breath test.
The Sun
Since a warrant to search a vehicle would similarly allow any compartments and containers in the vehicle to be searched, therefore a warrantless search may be of the same scope.
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search site
Soon afterwards they hatched plans to create their search site.
Times, Sunday Times
But they are more careful when writing formal letters, such as job applications, said the internet search site survey.
The Sun
The travel search site polled 1,000 users and a third said reclined seats caused them discomfort - with three per cent claiming they'd even been injured.
The Sun
The search site was calculated mainly by examining electronic 'pings' between a satellite and the jet in the final hours of its flight.
The Sun
As on the search site, advertisers bid for position.
Globe and Mail
search the sky
With an antenna shaped like an orange slice, it gave a very narrow, horizontal beam to search the sky.
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Search the skies overhead as free-flying birds of prey take flight in an all-action dynamic display of aerial acrobatics.
The Sun
Search the skies overhead as more than 50 majestic birds of prey take to the skies in this all-action, dynamic display of aerial acrobatics.
The Sun
If you don’t have time to search the skies tonight, don’t worry too much.
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In the 18th century telescopic innovation allowed a new breed of astronomers to search the skies for celestial wonders.
Times, Sunday Times
search thoroughly
Workers and vehicles delivering materials were ghly search thoroughly searched.
The Sun
It's all there in the small print of the times if yo u search thoroughly enough.
Times, Sunday Times
They searched thoroughly but found nothing.
The Sun
For example, when we mean to say that someone searched thoroughly, everywhere, we often say that someone searched high and low.
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We were having trouble convincing the command that this place needed to be searched thoroughly.
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systematic search
However, a systematic search 50 years later turned up a small population.
The Sun
She began a systematic search for additional substances that emit radiation, and by 1898 she discovered that the element thorium was also radioactive.
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At this point, the team could only account for three of the suspects, and immediately began a systematic search for the fourth.
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Wider interest in the tuning was not seen until modern times, when the computer made possible a systematic search of all possible equal temperaments.
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To improve recollection, he advised that a systematic search should be made and that practice was helpful.
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talent search
Channel 4 has therefore launched a public talent search.
Times, Sunday Times
Some view their work as essentially a talent search.
Christianity Today
In the third episode of this talent search, the show goes live.
The Sun
The first few pages describe the talent search process.
Christianity Today
That's the task facing 14 up-and-coming artists as the second series of the talent search begins.
Times, Sunday Times
thorough search
But suspicious staff, uneasy with his short stay, delayed his entry as they demanded a thorough search.
The Sun
Yet, after a thorough search, no remains could be found.
Times,Sunday Times
After an extended, thorough search for the right associate editor, we thought we'd found our person--and it didn't work out.
Christianity Today
The idea that standards of conduct can only be properly assessed after a thorough search of a person's bank accounts has to stop.
Times, Sunday Times
It will be a thorough search of where we want to go.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 搜索, 搜索
Japanese: 捜索, 捜索する
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