search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
diagnostic procedure diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
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 |
split-brain technique | brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted |
desensitization technique desensitisation technique desensitization procedure desensitisation procedure systematic desensitization systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
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 |
projective test projective device projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
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 |
proficiency technique | skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity, practice greatly improves proficiency |
technique | a practical method or art applied to some particular task |
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 |
search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
command language query language search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
search party | a party of people to search for someone |
ravine | a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) |
powder photography powder method powder technique | a process for identifying minerals or crystals, a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified Xays, the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification |
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 |
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 |
search seek look for | 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 |
search | subject to a search, The police searched the suspect, We searched the whole house for the missing keys |
strip-search | search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes, He was strip-searched at the airport |
search look | search or seek, We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest, Look elsewhere for the perfect gift! |