| trade | | |
| n. (act) | 1. trade | the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services.; "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ fair trade | trade that is conducted legally. |
| ~ fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers; often with other social and environmental considerations. |
| ~ free trade | international trade free of government interference. |
| ~ protect | use tariffs to favor domestic industry. |
| n. (act) | 2. craft, trade | the skilled practice of a practical occupation.; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" |
| ~ job, line of work, occupation, business, line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.; "he's not in my line of business" |
| ~ airplane mechanics | the craft of building and repairing airplanes. |
| ~ auto mechanics | the craft of building and repairing automobiles. |
| ~ basketry | the craft of basket making. |
| ~ carpentry, woodworking, woodwork | the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood. |
| ~ drafting, mechanical drawing | the craft of drawing blueprints. |
| ~ dressmaking | the craft of making dresses. |
| ~ electrical work | the craft of an electrician. |
| ~ interior design, interior decoration | the trade of planning the layout and furnishings of an architectural interior. |
| ~ lumbering | the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber. |
| ~ masonry | the craft of a mason. |
| ~ oculism | the craft of an oculist. |
| ~ house painting, painting | the occupation of a house painter.; "house painting was the only craft he knew" |
| ~ papermaking | the craft of making paper. |
| ~ pilotage, piloting | the occupation of a pilot. |
| ~ plumbery, plumbing | the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building). |
| ~ pottery | the craft of making earthenware. |
| ~ pyrotechny, pyrotechnics | the craft of making fireworks. |
| ~ cobbling, shoe repairing, shoemaking | the shoemaker's trade. |
| ~ roofing | the craft of a roofer. |
| ~ sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems). |
| ~ shingling | the laying on of shingles.; "shingling is a craft very different from carpentry" |
| ~ tailoring | the occupation of a tailor. |
| ~ tool-and-die work | the craft of making special tools and dies. |
| ~ handicraft | a craft that requires skillful hands. |
| ~ mintage | act or process of minting coins. |
| ~ tanning | making leather from rawhide. |
| ~ typography | the craft of composing type and printing from it. |
| ~ undertaking | the trade of a funeral director. |
| ~ upholstery | the craft of upholstering. |
| ~ wine making, winemaking | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine. |
| n. (act) | 3. patronage, trade | the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage" |
| ~ business | the volume of commercial activity.; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" |
| ~ custom | habitual patronage.; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years" |
| n. (act) | 4. business deal, deal, trade | a particular instance of buying or selling.; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal" |
| ~ transaction, dealing, dealings | the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities).; "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me" |
| ~ arms deal | a deal to provide military arms. |
| ~ penny ante | a business deal on a trivial scale. |
| n. (group) | 5. craft, trade | people who perform a particular kind of skilled work.; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade" |
| ~ social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status.; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 6. trade, trade wind | steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.; "they rode the trade winds going west" |
| ~ prevailing wind | the predominant wind direction.; "the prevailing wind is from the southwest" |
| n. (act) | 7. barter, swap, swop, trade | an equal exchange.; "we had no money so we had to live by barter" |
| ~ interchange, exchange | reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries).; "he earns his living from the interchange of currency" |
| ~ horse trade, horse trading | the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining). |
| v. (possession) | 8. merchandise, trade | engage in the trade of.; "he is merchandising telephone sets" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ buy, purchase | obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction.; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" |
| ~ black market, run | deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor. |
| ~ sell | exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent.; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit" |
| ~ traffic | trade or deal a commodity.; "They trafficked with us for gold" |
| ~ arbitrage | practice arbitrage, as in the stock market. |
| ~ traffic | deal illegally.; "traffic drugs" |
| ~ market | engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of.; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products" |
| ~ import | bring in from abroad. |
| ~ export | sell or transfer abroad.; "we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance" |
| v. (possession) | 9. trade, trade in | turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase.; "trade in an old car for a new one" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ exchange, interchange, change | give to, and receive from, one another.; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year" |
| ~ barter away | trade in in a bartering transaction. |
| v. (stative) | 10. trade | be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.; "The stock traded around $20 a share" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ sell | be sold at a certain price or in a certain way.; "These books sell like hot cakes" |
| ~ close | be priced or listed when trading stops.; "The stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last night" |
| v. (possession) | 11. swap, switch, swop, trade | exchange or give (something) in exchange for. |
| ~ exchange, interchange, change | give to, and receive from, one another.; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year" |
| v. (possession) | 12. deal, sell, trade | do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ push | sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs).; "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs" |
| ~ transact | conduct business.; "transact with foreign governments" |
| ~ deal | sell.; "deal hashish" |
| ~ deal | sell.; "deal hashish" |
| ~ black marketeer | deal on the black market. |
| ~ pyramid | use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal. |
| ~ market | deal in a market. |
| ~ hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend, pitch | sell or offer for sale from place to place. |
| ~ sell | be sold at a certain price or in a certain way.; "These books sell like hot cakes" |
| ferret | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. black-footed ferret, ferret, mustela nigripes | musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct. |
| ~ mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal | fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals. |
| ~ genus mustela, mustela | type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels. |
| n. (animal) | 2. ferret | domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits. |
| ~ fitch, foulmart, foumart, mustela putorius, polecat | dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened. |
| v. (motion) | 3. ferret | hound or harry relentlessly. |
| ~ hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| v. (competition) | 4. ferret | hunt with ferrets. |
| ~ hunt, hunt down, track down, run | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. ferret, ferret out | search and discover through persistent investigation.; "She ferreted out the truth" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| find | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. breakthrough, discovery, find | a productive insight. |
| ~ brainstorm, brainwave, insight | the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation. |
| n. (act) | 2. discovery, find, uncovering | the act of discovering something. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ tracing | the discovery and description of the course of development of something.; "the tracing of genealogies" |
| ~ espial, catching, detection, spotting, spying | the act of detecting something; catching sight of something. |
| ~ self-discovery | discovering your own individuality. |
| ~ breakthrough | making an important discovery. |
| ~ determination, finding | the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation.; "the determination of molecular structures" |
| ~ rediscovery | the act of discovering again. |
| v. (possession) | 3. bump, chance, encounter, find, happen | come upon, as if by accident; meet with.; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
| v. (perception) | 4. detect, discover, find, notice, observe | discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" |
| ~ catch out, find out | trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act.; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| ~ sense | detect some circumstance or entity automatically.; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" |
| ~ instantiate | find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word).; "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect" |
| ~ trace | discover traces of.; "She traced the circumstances of her birth" |
| ~ see | observe as if with an eye.; "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it" |
| ~ sight, spy | catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" |
| v. (possession) | 5. find, regain | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| ~ find | obtain through effort or management.; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college" |
| ~ recover, regain, retrieve, find | get or find back; recover the use of.; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" |
| ~ feel | find by testing or cautious exploration.; "He felt his way around the dark room" |
| ~ locate, turn up | discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" |
| ~ chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, attain, discover, strike | find unexpectedly.; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" |
| ~ rout out, rout up | get or find by searching.; "What did you rout out in the library?" |
| v. (communication) | 6. ascertain, determine, find, find out | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
| ~ gauge | determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation.; "gauge the wine barrels" |
| ~ translate | determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA. |
| ~ rectify | math: determine the length of.; "rectify a curve" |
| ~ redetermine | fix, find, or establish again.; "the physicists redetermined Planck's constant" |
| ~ sequence | determine the order of constituents in.; "They sequenced the human genome" |
| ~ ascertain, find out, learn, watch, determine, see, check | find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort.; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" |
| ~ refract | determine the refracting power of (a lens). |
| ~ count, numerate, enumerate, number | determine the number or amount of.; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| ~ admeasure | determine the quantity of someone's share. |
| ~ situate, locate | determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey.; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. feel, find | come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" |
| ~ conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
| ~ rule, find | decide on and make a declaration about.; "find someone guilty" |
| v. (perception) | 8. find, see, witness | perceive or be contemporaneous with.; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" |
| ~ get a line, get wind, get word, discover, find out, hear, learn, pick up, see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" |
| ~ catch | become aware of.; "he caught her staring out the window" |
| ~ experience, go through, see | go or live through.; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" |
| ~ find | perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room" |
| v. (possession) | 9. come up, find, get hold, line up | get something or somebody for a specific purpose.; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| v. (creation) | 10. discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| ~ ascertain, determine, find out, find | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
| ~ conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate | have the idea for.; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" |
| ~ detect, discover, notice, observe, find | discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" |
| v. (cognition) | 11. discover, find | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| ~ get a line, get wind, get word, discover, find out, hear, learn, pick up, see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" |
| ~ rake up | bring to light.; "He raked up the misdeeds of his predecessor" |
| ~ ferret out, ferret | search and discover through persistent investigation.; "She ferreted out the truth" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| v. (possession) | 12. find | obtain through effort or management.; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| ~ regain, find | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| v. (communication) | 13. find, rule | decide on and make a declaration about.; "find someone guilty" |
| ~ feel, find | come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" |
| ~ pronounce, label, judge | pronounce judgment on.; "They labeled him unfit to work here" |
| v. (change) | 14. find, get, incur, obtain, receive | receive a specified treatment (abstract).; "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ take | ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial.; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| v. (perception) | 15. find | perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room" |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
| ~ witness, see, find | perceive or be contemporaneous with.; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" |
| v. (possession) | 16. find, recover, regain, retrieve | get or find back; recover the use of.; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| ~ access | obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer. |
| ~ regain, find | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| v. (motion) | 17. find | succeed in reaching; arrive at.; "The arrow found its mark" |
| ~ arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make | reach a destination, either real or abstract.; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
| v. (change) | 18. find, find oneself | accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" |
| ~ maturate, mature, grow | develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation.; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" |
| hunt | | |
| n. (person) | 1. holman hunt, hunt, william holman hunt | Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910). |
| ~ pre-raphaelite | a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals. |
| n. (person) | 2. hunt, richard morris hunt | United States architect (1827-1895). |
| ~ architect, designer | someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings). |
| n. (person) | 3. hunt, james henry leigh hunt, leigh hunt | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859). |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (group) | 4. hunt, hunt club | an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. |
| ~ gild, guild, social club, club, lodge, society, order | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. hunt | an instance of searching for something.; "the hunt for submarines" |
| ~ search | the examination of alternative hypotheses.; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" |
| n. (act) | 6. hunt, hunting, search | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ exploration | a careful systematic search. |
| ~ foraging, forage | the act of searching for food and provisions. |
| ~ frisk, frisking | the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs.; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk" |
| ~ looking for, looking | the act of searching visually. |
| ~ manhunt | an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime). |
| ~ seeking, quest | the act of searching for something.; "a quest for diamonds" |
| ~ ransacking, rummage | a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).; "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" |
| ~ scouring | moving over territory to search for something.; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing" |
| ~ shakedown | a very thorough search of a person or a place.; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" |
| n. (act) | 7. hunt, hunting | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. |
| ~ canned hunt | a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections. |
| ~ toil, labor, labour | productive work (especially physical work done for wages).; "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
| ~ stalking, still hunt, stalk | a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush. |
| ~ birdnesting | hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs. |
| ~ predation | the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey. |
| n. (act) | 8. hunt, hunting | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. |
| ~ field sport, outdoor sport | a sport that is played outdoors. |
| ~ blood sport | sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting). |
| ~ battue | a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter. |
| ~ beagling | hunting rabbits with beagles. |
| ~ coursing | hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent. |
| ~ deer hunt, deer hunting | hunting deer. |
| ~ duck hunting, ducking | hunting ducks. |
| ~ fox hunting, foxhunt | mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox. |
| ~ pigsticking | the sport of hunting wild boar with spears. |
| ~ bag | capture or kill, as in hunting.; "bag a few pheasants" |
| ~ batfowl | catch birds by temporarily blinding them. |
| ~ snare, trammel, ensnare, entrap, trap | catch in or as if in a trap.; "The men trap foxes" |
| ~ gin | trap with a snare.; "gin game" |
| v. (competition) | 9. hunt, hunt down, run, track down | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
| ~ snipe | hunt or shoot snipe. |
| ~ whale | hunt for whales. |
| ~ still-hunt, ambush | hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing. |
| ~ turtle | hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation. |
| ~ drive | hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.; "drive the game" |
| ~ drive | hunting: search for game.; "drive the forest" |
| ~ rabbit | hunt rabbits. |
| ~ fowl | hunt fowl in the forest. |
| ~ poach | hunt illegally.; "people are poaching elephants for their ivory" |
| ~ seal | hunt seals. |
| ~ ferret | hunt with ferrets. |
| ~ hunt | search (an area) for prey.; "The King used to hunt these forests" |
| ~ course | hunt with hounds.; "He often courses hares" |
| ~ foxhunt | hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs. |
| ~ jacklight, jack | hunt with a jacklight. |
| ~ hawk | hunt with hawks.; "the tribes like to hawk in the desert" |
| ~ falcon | hunt with falcons.; "The tribes like to falcon in the desert" |
| ~ fowl | hunt fowl. |
| ~ capture, catch | capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping.; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" |
| ~ run | cause an animal to move fast.; "run the dogs" |
| ~ forage, scrounge | collect or look around for (food). |
| v. (motion) | 10. hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| ~ chase, dog, give chase, go after, tail, chase after, trail, track, tag | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| ~ ferret | hound or harry relentlessly. |
| v. (motion) | 11. hunt | chase away, with as with force.; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
| ~ drive out, rouse, rout out, force out | force or drive out.; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
| v. (motion) | 12. hunt | yaw back and forth about a flight path.; "the plane's nose yawed" |
| ~ aeroplane, airplane, plane | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" |
| ~ yaw | deviate erratically from a set course.; "the yawing motion of the ship" |
| v. (motion) | 13. hunt | oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" |
| ~ oscillate, vibrate | move or swing from side to side regularly.; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" |
| v. (contact) | 14. hunt | seek, search for.; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" |
| ~ look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| v. (competition) | 15. hunt | search (an area) for prey.; "The King used to hunt these forests" |
| ~ hunt, hunt down, track down, run | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
| ~ search, look | search or seek.; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" |
| locate | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. locate, turn up | discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" |
| ~ dig up, excavate, turn up | find by digging in the ground.; "I dug up an old box in the garden" |
| ~ regain, find | come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" |
| ~ unearth | bring to light.; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" |
| ~ pinpoint, nail | locate exactly.; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" |
| v. (stative) | 2. locate, situate | determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey.; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" |
| ~ ascertain, determine, find out, find | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
| ~ acquire | locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar. |
| ~ radiolocate | locate by means of radar.; "The pilot managed to radiolocate the lost aircraft" |
| ~ map | locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences.; "map the genes" |
| ~ localise, localize, place | identify the location or place of.; "We localized the source of the infection" |
| ~ base | situate as a center of operations.; "we will base this project in the new lab" |
| v. (possession) | 3. locate, place, site | assign a location to.; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" |
| ~ station, post, send, place | assign to a station. |
| v. (change) | 4. locate, settle | take up residence and become established.; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" |
| ~ colonise, colonize | settle as colonists or establish a colony (in).; "The British colonized the East Coast" |
| ~ resettle | settle in a new place.; "The immigrants had to resettle" |
| ~ move | change residence, affiliation, or place of employment.; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another" |
| scout | | |
| n. (person) | 1. lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch | a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event. |
| ~ security guard, watchman, watcher | a guard who keeps watch. |
| n. (person) | 2. scout | a Boy Scout or Girl Scout. |
| ~ boy scout | a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts. |
| ~ female child, little girl, girl | a youthful female person.; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" |
| ~ girl scout | a girl who is a member of the Girl Scouts. |
| ~ boy, male child | a youthful male person.; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform" |
| n. (person) | 3. scout, talent scout | someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports). |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ recruiter | someone who supplies members or employees. |
| n. (person) | 4. guide, pathfinder, scout | someone who can find paths through unexplored territory. |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| ~ hunting guide | guide to people hunting in unfamiliar territory. |
| ~ trailblazer | someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees. |
| ~ sacagawea, sacajawea | the Shoshone guide and interpreter who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition part of the way. |
| v. (perception) | 5. reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout | explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody. |
| ~ observe | watch attentively.; "Please observe the reaction of these two chemicals" |
| search | | |
| n. (act) | 1. search | an investigation seeking answers.; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search" |
| ~ investigating, investigation | the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically. |
| n. (process) | 2. lookup, search | an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup" |
| ~ operation | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).; "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. search | the examination of alternative hypotheses.; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" |
| ~ hunt | an instance of searching for something.; "the hunt for submarines" |
| ~ pursuance, quest, pursuit | a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria.; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth" |
| ~ higher cognitive process | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use. |
| n. (act) | 4. search | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.; "right of search" |
| ~ examination, scrutiny | the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes). |
| v. (contact) | 5. look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| ~ dredge, drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost. |
| ~ finger | search for on the computer.; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons" |
| ~ fumble, grope | feel about uncertainly or blindly.; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" |
| ~ divine | search by divining, as if with a rod.; "He claimed he could divine underground water" |
| ~ surf, browse | look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular.; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" |
| ~ leave no stone unturned | search thoroughly and exhaustively.; "The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer" |
| ~ hunt | seek, search for.; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" |
| ~ gather | look for (food) in nature.; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" |
| ~ want | hunt or look for; want for a particular reason.; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you" |
| ~ scour | examine minutely.; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive" |
| ~ seek out | look for a specific person or thing. |
| ~ quest after, quest for, go after, pursue | go in search of or hunt for.; "pursue a hobby" |
| ~ fish, angle | seek indirectly.; "fish for compliments" |
| ~ grub | search about busily. |
| ~ feel | grope or feel in search of something.; "He felt for his wallet" |
| ~ browse, shop | shop around; not necessarily buying.; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" |
| v. (perception) | 6. look, search | search or seek.; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" |
| ~ hunt | search (an area) for prey.; "The King used to hunt these forests" |
| ~ examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" |
| ~ cruise | look for a sexual partner in a public place.; "The men were cruising the park" |
| ~ prospect | search for something desirable.; "prospect a job" |
| ~ horn in, nose, poke, intrude, pry | search or inquire in a meddlesome way.; "This guy is always nosing around the office" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. explore, research, search | inquire into.; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness" |
| ~ prospect | explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals. |
| ~ google | search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine.; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" |
| ~ mapquest | search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program.; "you can just mapquest the restaurant" |
| ~ re-explore | explore anew.; "We need to re-explore Colonialism" |
| ~ beat about, cast about, cast around | search anxiously. |
| ~ investigate, look into | investigate scientifically.; "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese" |
| v. (contact) | 8. search | subject to a search.; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" |
| ~ raid | search for something needed or desired.; "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator" |
| ~ frisk | search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets.; "The police frisked everyone at the airport" |
| ~ strip-search | search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes.; "He was strip-searched at the airport" |
| ~ scan | make a wide, sweeping search of.; "The beams scanned the night sky" |
| ~ rifle, go | go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way.; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?" |
| ~ rummage | search haphazardly.; "We rummaged through the drawers" |
| ~ comb, ransack | search thoroughly.; "They combed the area for the missing child" |
| ~ examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" |
| seek | | |
| n. (event) | 1. seek | the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ motion, movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
| v. (possession) | 2. seek | try to get or reach.; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness" |
| ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" |
| ~ bid | make a serious effort to attain something.; "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population" |
| ~ quest | make a search (for).; "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest" |
| v. (social) | 3. assay, attempt, essay, seek, try | make an effort or attempt.; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" |
| ~ pick up the gauntlet, take a dare | be dared to do something and attempt it. |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| ~ struggle, fight | make a strenuous or labored effort.; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" |
| ~ have a go, give it a try | make an attempt at something.; "I never sat on a horse before but I'll give it a go" |
| ~ grope | search blindly or uncertainly.; "His mind groped to make the connection" |
| ~ endeavor, endeavour, strive | attempt by employing effort.; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" |
| ~ give it a try, give it a whirl | try.; "let's give it a whirl!" |
| ~ adventure, gamble, run a risk, take a chance, take chances, chance, risk, hazard | take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome.; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" |
| ~ lay on the line, put on the line, risk | expose to a chance of loss or damage.; "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"; "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong" |
| v. (motion) | 4. seek | go to or towards.; "a liquid seeks its own level" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (communication) | 5. seek | inquire for.; "seek directions from a local" |
| ~ request | inquire for (information).; "I requested information from the secretary" |
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