Retrieve



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GRE 红宝书

• v. 寻回, 取回; 挽回 ( 错误)
• ［英］ 寻回, 取回 ( regain) , 挽回 ( 错误) ( to remedy the evil consequences of; correct)
• ［记］ re ( 重新) +trieve ( =find 找到) -> 重新找到 -> 寻回
• ［同］ 派生词: retrieval n. 取回, 补偿

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (retrieved; retrieving)

• Etymology: Middle English retreven, from Anglo-French retrueve-, present stem of retrover to find again, from re- + trover to compose, invent, find, from Vulgar Latin *tropare — more at troubadour
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game)
  • 2. to call to mind again
  • 3. to get back again ; regain
  • 4.
    • a. rescue, salvage
    • b. to return (as a ball or shuttlecock that is difficult to reach) successfully
  • 5. restore, revive <his writing retrieves the past>
  • 6. to remedy the evil consequences of ; correct
  • 7. to get and bring back; especially to recover (as information) from storage
• intransitive verb
  • to bring in game <a dog that retrieves well>; also to bring back an object thrown by a person
• ? retrievability noun
• ? retrievable adjective

II. noun

• Date: 1697
• 1. retrieval
• 2. the successful return of a ball that is difficult to reach or control (as in tennis)

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