Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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shakedown | Yes | Yes | No | No |
search | Yes | No | Yes | No |
shakedown (noun) | search (noun) |
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extortion of money (as by blackmail) | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
a very thorough search of a person or a place | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas |
initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | an investigation seeking answers |
the examination of alternative hypotheses | |
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property |
shakedown (adjective) | search (adjective) |
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intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system |
shakedown (verb) | search (verb) |
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inquire into | |
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | |
subject to a search | |
search or seek |