search : Idioms & Phrases


air search radar

  • noun a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft
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freedom from search and seizure

  • noun a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution
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Re-search" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. re- + search.
Definitions
  1. To search again; to examine anew.
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  • noun the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them
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  • (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war.
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search and destroy mission

  • noun an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them
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search and rescue mission

  • noun a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them
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search engine

  • noun a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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search language

  • noun a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed
    command language; query language.
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search mission

  • noun a mission to discover something
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search party

  • noun a party of people to search for someone
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Search warrant

  • noun a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court; the warrant describes the locations where the officials may search
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  • (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.
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searching fire

  • noun fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun
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soul-searching

  • noun a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
    self-analysis.
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  • noun searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes
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  • verb search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes
    • He was strip-searched at the airport
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surface search radar

  • noun a naval radar to search for surface targets
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To search out

  • to seek till found; to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.
Webster 1913