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1 rummage
['rʌmɪdʒ]Australian slang: fossick ("fossicking through the kitchen drawers") -
2 search
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3 to prospect
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4 искать
1) General subject: be on the lookout for (she's always on the lookout for smart reads), cast round, cast to cast about for smth., dig for (dig for information - откапывать сведения), fish (в воде for), forage, go after, grapple, grope, grub (обыкн. в архивах, книгах и т. п. тж. grub about), have a look for (что-л.), hunt after, hunt for, look, look for, look for (что-л.), look up (что-либо в справочнике), make a search for (кого-л., что-л.), pick, quest, ransack, reach (чего-л.), root, rootle, rummage, search, seek (seek dead! - ищи!), seek (часто for, after), seek out (чьего-либо общества), sue, to be in search of (что-л.), try, try for, woo (чего-л.), dig for, hunt up, look about, scrounge around for, look up (в справочнике), try for (работу, место), look for (кого-л., что-л.), have a look for (разыскивать, что-л.), (что-л.) scratch around, scrambling3) American: beat the bushes (обычно в отдалённых районах), beat the bushes (обычно в отдаленных районах)4) Poetical language: ensue5) Engineering: hunt (напр, зоны на магнитной ленте), investigate, trace6) Mathematics: find8) Australian slang: pull strings9) Jargon: buck, frisk (кого-то или что-то), pad down10) Information technology: browse, hunt (напр. зону на магнитной ленте)11) Oil: search for12) Fishery: fish for13) Network technologies: retrieval14) Robots: look-up15) Makarov: fish (for) (в воде), come after, cast round (предлог объяснение ответ) -
5 искать золото в заброшенных выработках
Mining: fossick (чаще чужих)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > искать золото в заброшенных выработках
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6 копаться в поисках
General subject: fossick (чего-л.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > копаться в поисках
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7 шарить
1) General subject: feel, ferret, fumble, paw over, rummage (in), search, (в поисках чего-то) scrabble about (She scrabbled about on the floor picking up the coins she'd dropped — Она шарила по полу, отыскивая уроненные ею монеты), rummage3) Makarov: feel about, feel around, ferret about, ferret for -
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См. также в других словарях:
Fossick — Fos sick, v. i. [Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick to potter over one s work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fuss}.] 1. (Mining) To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fossick — [fäs′ik] vi. [Eng dial., prob. ult. < FUSS] Austral. 1. to prospect or search, as for gold 2. to search about; rummage vt. to search for; seek out … English World dictionary
fossick — /ˈfɒsɪk / (say fosik) verb (i) 1. a. to search unsystematically or in a small way for mineral deposits, usually over ground previously worked by others. b. to search similarly for small items: to fossick through a drawer for scissors. 2. to… …
fossick — fossicker, n. /fos ik/, Chiefly Australian. v.i. 1. Mining. to undermine another s digging; search for waste gold in relinquished workings, washing places, etc. 2. to search for any object by which to make gain: to fossick for clients. v.t. 3. to … Universalium
fossick — verb a) To ferret out; to elicit information. In New South Wales the bureau has been able to dispose of a large contingent of the workless by sending them to fossick for gold on old or deserted goldfields. b) To search for gold, gems, etc., on… … Wiktionary
fossick — To search for gold. In the Cornish dialect, fossick means to obtain by asking, to ferret out . Cornish miners probably brought the term to Australia in the 1850s and used it to describe their search for gold. Australia inherited a number of… … Australian idioms
fossick — UK [ˈfɒsɪk] / US [ˈfɑsɪk] verb [intransitive] Word forms fossick : present tense I/you/we/they fossick he/she/it fossicks present participle fossicking past tense fossicked past participle fossicked Australian to look for something among a lot of … English dictionary
fossick — verb Etymology: English dialect fossick to ferret out Date: 1852 intransitive verb 1. Australian & New Zealand to search for gold or gemstones typically by picking over abandoned workings 2. chiefly Australian & New Zealand to search about ;… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Fossick — Recorded in many forms ashown below, this is an English surname of ancient and very confused origins. It almost certainly however spelt locational from any of at least three quite separate places. It is not thought to have been occupational from… … Surnames reference
fossick — fos•sick [[t]ˈfɒs ɪk[/t]] chiefly aus. 1) min brit. to search for waste gold in relinquished workings 2) brit. to rummage 3) brit. to ferret out • Etymology: 1850–55; cf. dial. fossick troublesome person fos′sick•er, n … From formal English to slang
fossick — v.intr. Austral. & NZ colloq. 1 (foll. by about, around) rummage, search. 2 search for gold etc. in abandoned workings. Derivatives: fossicker n. Etymology: 19th c.: cf. dial. fossick bustle about … Useful english dictionary