| 单词 | retrieve |
| 释义 | retrieve (once / 991 pages) v When you retrieve something, you bring it back. Lots of dogs love to retrieve tennis balls, bringing them back to you over and over again. You might retrieve your cell phone from the car, or the toys a baby throws repeatedly on the floor. You can also retrieve a memory from the recesses of your mind, or struggle to remember someone's name and then suddenly retrieve it. A retriever is a dog that's bred to bring things back — in fact, this is the word's earliest use, from the fifteenth century. The Old French root is retreuver, "find again," from re-, "again," and trouver, "to find." WORD FAMILYretrieve: retrievable, retrieval, retrieved, retriever, retrieves, retrieving+/irretrievable: irretrievably/retrievable: irretrievable, unretrievable/retrieval: retrievals/retriever: retrievers USAGE EXAMPLESA police spokesman says the bomb squad retrieves old military munitions about once a month. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) A Toledo police spokesman says the bomb squad retrieves old military munitions about once a month. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) If you would like to retrieve it, look next to the hydrant on the southeast corner at 96th Street and Madison Avenue. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v get or find back; recover the use of Syn|Hypo|Hyper find, recover, regain find, regain come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost access obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer addressaccess or locate by address log in, log on, log-inenter a computer acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2v go for and bring back retrieve the car from the parking garage Hyper bring, convey, fetch, get go or come after and bring or take back 3v run after, pick up, and bring to the master train the dog to retrieve Hyper bring, convey, fetch, get go or come after and bring or take back 4v recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection Syn|Ant|Hypo call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think blank out, block, draw a blank, forget be unable to remember know perceive as familiar recognise, recognizeperceive to be the same brush up, refresh, reviewrefresh one's memory identifyconsider to be equal or the same |
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