search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
pivot shot | a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot |
pivot | the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot, the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot |
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 |
air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
column pillar a | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
column pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
column chromatography column | a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography, a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands |
lally lally column | support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete |
pivot pin | axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns |
support column | a column that supports a heavy weight |
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 |
column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body |
spinal column vertebral column spine backbone back rachis | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord, the fall broke his back |
pivot joint rotary joint rotatory joint articulatio trochoidea | a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation, the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint |
search | the examination of alternative hypotheses, his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful |
column | a page or text that is vertically divided, the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject, the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns |
column editorial newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives |
agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems |
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 |
fifth column Trojan horse | a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage, an enemy in your midst |
column | a line of units following one after another |
column | a vertical array of numbers or other information, he added a column of numbers |
pivot pivot man | the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver |
column chromatography | chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders |
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 |
column inch inch | a unit of measurement for advertising space |
column tower pillar | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, the test tube held a column of white powder, a tower of dust rose above the horizon, a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite |
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 |
pivot swivel | turn on a pivot |
search look | search or seek, We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest, Look elsewhere for the perfect gift! |