| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
| search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
| valet parking | a service provided (at a club or restaurant or airport etc.) whereby a patron leaves a car at the entrance and an attendant parks and retrieves it |
| parking | the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily |
| search | an investigation seeking answers, a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing, the outcome justified the search |
| search | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas, right of search |
search
hunt hunting | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| strip search | searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes |
| search mission | a mission to discover something |
| search and destroy mission | an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam, troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic
drug trafficking
narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade
slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
| air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
| parking meter | a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space, depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
traffic circle
circle rotary
roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
| traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| right of search | the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them |
| search | the examination of alternative hypotheses, his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful |
| search warrant | 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 |
| parking ticket | a ticket issued for parking in a restricted place |
| search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
| traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time, heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines, traffic on the internet is lightest during the night |
traffic jam
snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
| search party | a party of people to search for someone |
| traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
| traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |
| air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft |
| commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work |
pedestrian traffic
foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
vehicular traffic
vehicle traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality |
automobile traffic
car traffic | cars coming and going |
| bicycle traffic | bicycles coming and going |
| bus traffic | buses coming and going |
| truck traffic | trucks coming and going |
traffic pattern
approach pattern
pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
| no-parking zone | a space where automobiles are not allowed to park |
parking lot
car park
park parking area | a lot where cars are parked |
parking space
parking zone | a space where an automobile can be parked |
| traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
search
lookup | 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 |
| parking | space in which vehicles can be parked, there is plenty of parking behind the store |
research
search
explore | 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 |