absol. To make search.
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] (68) seekc1000 absol. To make search. ofsechec1300 intransitive. To make a search. rare. searchc1330 intransitive. To make a careful or thorough search of a place, area, etc., in order to find someone or something; to make a concerted attempt to find… laita1400 absol. or intransitive. To look, search. Also dialect. To look for a word; to hesitate in speech. ripea1400 intransitive. To search or rummage (for or after something hidden); to grope about. Scottish in later use. to cast about1575 To go this way and that in search for game, a lost scent, etc., originally a hunting locution. Cf. 60. to fall about1632 intransitive. Apparently: to apply oneself energetically to a task. Cf. sense 47d. Obsolete. rare. quest1669 intransitive. To go in search of something; to search for. Also with around, about. to bush about or out1686 to bush aboutor out: ? to beat or hunt about for (as for game). Cf. busk, v.4 1. beat1709 intransitive or absol. Also figurative esp. with about. to beat over the old ground: to discuss topics already treated of. to cast about one1823 transferred and figurative. to cast about one: to look about (mentally). feather1892 Hunting. Of a hound: To make a quivering movement with the tail and body, while searching for the trail. Subcategories:— again or repeatedly (1) — begin a search (1) — have to search over a wide area (1) — engage in a hopeless search (1) — range about searching (5) — go on an exploration (2) — rummage or search thoroughly (12) — poke about or grub (10) — search exhaustively (5) — search as if blind or in dark (2) — search captiously (2) — search with the hand (2) — search as with a probe (1) — search for something under water (3) — search for things cast up by sea (2) — search for old or rare books (1) — search (as) for truffles (1) — search for subterraneous water (3) — be sought by police, etc. (1) |
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