trawl

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

trawls

1.
A net or dragnet used for trawling.
2.
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
3.
An exhaustive search.
I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

trawls

V_ing/Gerund

trawling

V_ed/pp

trawled

1.
(ambitransitive)To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
2.
(intransitive)To fish from a slow-moving boat.
They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
3.
(intransitive)To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
Đồng nghĩa: rummage, forage, rifle

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Đồng nghĩa

rummage forage rifle

Cùng gốc / liên quan

pelagic trawltrawl whitingtrawlwiretroll

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Nguồn gốc từ

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (to pull with a towline, trawl), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (dragnet) (presumably from Latin tragula (dragnet)), and as such root-cognate with drag and dray.