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Définitions

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search
1. v. Fouiller.
Here he was searched. And nothing being found upon him, locked up. Il y fut fouillé et comme on ne trouvait rien sur lui on l'enferma. Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens. p. 86.
2. v. Fouiller. Examiner les habits de quelqu'un en explorant ses poches, en le palpant etc. afin de trouver quelque chose qu'il pourrait cacher (spécialement parce qu'il l'aurait volé). Le verbe s'emploie tout particulièrement en relation avec la police.
3. v. Rechercher.
The little boy searched his room everywhere for his lost toy, but he didn't find it.
4. n. Recherche. (note) La recherche de la connaissance scientifique, c'est research.
5. n. (Juri) Perquisition.
Search for evidence.
anglais > anglais
search
1. n. An attempt to find something.
With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
2. n. The act of searching in general.
Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
3. v. To look in (a place) for something.
I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
4. v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
5. v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
7. v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
français > anglais
fouiller
1. v. to search (place, thing)
2. v. to search, frisk (person)
3. v. to go into, investigate (question, issue)
4. v. to rummage, delve (dans in)
J'ai fouillé dans mon sac, mais je n'ai pas pu trouver mon portefeuille. - I rummaged through my bag, but I couldn't find my wallet.
5. v. (reflexive) to go through one's pockets
6. v. to dig

Exemples de phrases

How is your job search going?      Comment se passe ta recherche d'emploi ? Search everyone who comes into this room.      Fouille quiconque entre dans cette pièce. There are things that only intelligence is capable of searching for, but which it itself will never find. These things can only be found by instinct, but it will never search for them.      Il y a des choses que l'intelligence seule est capable de chercher, mais que par elle-même elle ne trouvera jamais. Ces choses, l'instinct seul les trouverait, mais il ne les cherchera jamais. Search; find; discover!      Cherche ; trouve ; découvre ! You can search sentences containing a certain word and get translations for these sentences.      Vous pouvez faire une recherche pour des phrases contenant un certain mot et obtenir des traductions pour ces phrases.

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