单词 | searched |
释义 | searchedadj. 1. That is or has been examined; that has undergone a search.rare before the 19th cent. ΚΠ 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 83v Mons scrutatus..: A searched moountayn. 1829 Craftsman (Rochester, N.Y.) 8 Dec. 352/1 One of the Police Officers brought away a small trunk containing the wardrobe of the..owner of the searched room. 1938 J. L. Frasconà Visit, Search, & Seizure on High Seas 70 The searched vessel may be either immediately permitted to resume its voyage unmolested or immediately seized by the searching vessel. 2011 Canberra Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. a3 A resident living close to the searched apartment reported disturbances coming from nearby hours before the murder. 2. That is or has been sought out or desired. Also with after, out. See also searched-for adj. (a) at Compounds. ΚΠ 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. O7 Alas, how fruitles is this loue..howe far sequestred is the vehemencie of the same, from the serched recompence? 1668 R. Howard Duell of Stags 11 When the searcht-out Cause appear'd no more,..A bold disdain did in his Looks appear. 1845 A. F. Vogel Discov. Gen. Resol. Finite Equations 18 We must..take the middle-value of both, which in all cases furnishes the searched result. 1963 H. H. Bixler Manufacturing Res. Function 47/2 Both creative engineers and managers are needed to discuss together the possible applications of the searched-out information. 2008 P. F. Craffert Life Galilean Shaman 59 The observable..phenomena included natural as well as supernatural ones, and these make up the searched-after historical kernel. 3. That is or has been the subject of a digital search (search n. 3c). See also searched-for adj. (b) at Compounds. ΚΠ 1987 E. S. Aversa et al. Online Information Services for Secondary School Students 22 Topics of student searches vary widely. The most apparent finding from the question on the ‘most heavily searched topic’ is that current topics..were most heavily searched. 1998 PR Newswire (Nexis) 6 Aug. Following are the top-ten most searched celebrities on HotBot. 2007 Financial Times 17 Feb. (Money section) 2/4 The most frequently searched areas outside of London on Propertyfinder.com last month included Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Norwich and Birmingham. Compounds searched-for adj. (a) that is or has been sought; (b) that is or has been the subject of a digital search (search n. 3c). ΚΠ 1833 J. Grant Course of Serm. for Year I. x. 142 [To] feed the obtrusive mendicant with that bread which would bless the modest and the searched-for sufferer. 1909 V. Hedden in Golden Stories viii Naturally the last drawer to be emptied held the searched-for object. 1995 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 18 Jan. 8/2 The most searched-for word on the Internet was: ‘sex’. 2019 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Fashion section) Fashion Nova was the most-searched-for fashion brand on Google in the US in 2018. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1575 |
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