search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
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 |
database management | creation and maintenance of a database |
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 |
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) |
electronic database on-line database computer database electronic information service | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
database management system DBMS | a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database |
relational database management system | a database management system designed to manage a relational database |
object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
database | an organized body of related information |
relational database | a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes, in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables |
object-oriented database | a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
lexical database | a database of information about words |
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 |
Patent and Trademark Office Database Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
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! |