searcher
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large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America -
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a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items -
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someone making a search or inquiry "they are seekers after truth"
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(Gun) One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
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One who searches, in any sense of that word. -
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A customs officer whose business it is to search ships, baggage, goods, etc., for prohibited or undeclared dutiable articles, etc. -
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A prison official who searches or examines the clothing of newly arrested persons, and takes temporary possession of the articles found about them. -
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A civil officer formerly appointed in some Scottish towns to apprehend idlers on the street during church hours on the Sabbath. -
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A person employed to search the public records of conveyances, mortgages, judgments, etc., to ascertain whether a title be good, or to find instruments affecting a title. -
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A person formerly appointed in London to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. -
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An inspector of leather. -
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Something used in searching, examining, testing, etc. An instrument for examining ordnance, to ascertain whether guns have any defects in the bore. -
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A sieve or strainer.
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a seeker: an inquirer or examiner: a custom-house officer: an officer who formerly apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland: a sieve or strainer
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. OF. cercheor, inspector
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. cercher (Fr. chercher)—L. circāre, to go about—circus, a circle.
Searchers recovered Cochrane's body late Friday morning. dio.com
Searchers have recoverd the body of Stanislaw Nawrocki,the boat owner who fell overboard while out with a homeless man who is now under arrest. abclocal.go.com
Searchers comb Yolo County for carjacking suspect. kcra.com
Searchers will try again next week to find the invasive Asian carp in Chicago area waters close to Lake Michigan. taq.com
Chesterfield County searchers will be out on the ground and in the air Thursday morning as they search for a missing Society Hill man. 2.scnow.com
Placer County Sheriff's Office searchers located the body Tuesday of a Clipper Gap man missing since Sunday evening. auburnjournal.com
Officials said searchers challenged by weather conditions. herald-mail.com
Searchers confirm singer is dead. pe.com
Searchers Have Found The Body Of A Missing Construction Worker . eastidahonews.com
Google has laid another Easter Egg for those searchers on its main homepage. pcmag.com
MAILBOX / Searchers and the drug epidemic . daily-jeff.com
Living in the Material World is a fitting, sonorous tribute to the pop idol, movie producer, spiritual searcher and constant gardener. time.com
Park officials said 50 searchers were looking for 32-year-old Neal Peckens of Virginia and 32-year-old Jason Hiser of Maryland. foxnews.com
Park officials say 50 searchers are looking for 32-year-old Neal Peckens of Virginia and 32-year-old Jason Hiser of Maryland. dtn.com
When Lambert failed to return home, searchers began combing the area but failed to find him. blog.mysanantonio.com
We consider a minimal model of persistent random searcher with short range memory.
Optimizing persistent random searches
We calculate exactly for such searcher the mean first-passage time to a target in a bounded domain and find that it admits a non trivial minimum as function of the persistence length.
Optimizing persistent random searches
The random search problem addresses the question of determining the time it takes a searcher performing a random walk to find a target .
Optimizing persistent random searches
From the theoretical point of view, the search time can be quantified as the first-passage time of the random searcher to the target .
Optimizing persistent random searches
At larger scales however, most examples of searchers – even if random – have at least short range memory skills and show persistent motions, as is the case for bacteria or larger organisms , which cannot be described as Markovian scale invariant processes.
Optimizing persistent random searches
Yet he was an earnest searcher after truth, who was fain to attempt the unlocking of Nature's secrets, but did not hold the right key. "Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery" by
Well, searchers after the real, what would you substitute for it? "Mental Efficiency" by
He had run up again for a moment to inquire how Little Bill was getting on, when the blanket and sheet searchers found them. "The Buffalo Runners" by
It needed no persuasive argument to send the searchers off. "Gaspar the Gaucho" by
That was evident, for there had been no response as the searchers burst out. "The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast" by
The searchers left that room, and pursued their investigations elsewhere. "Cruel As The Grave" by
Finally the last of the searchers reported in. "Gold in the Sky" by
It would be a test in which every faculty of the searcher's scoutcraft would be brought into active exercise. "Kiddie the Scout" by
Estelle de Tourneville secured that spot from the searchers' gaze. "The Northern Iron" by
The anxious searchers pushed on through a wild and rugged country until sundown. "The Camp in the Snow" by
Bore this aged, genial searcher;
One who listening sat before him
Much could learn from time to time.
Thou who didst seal by Thy descending Dove
Thy servant's choice, O help us in our parts,
Else helpless found, to learn and teach Thy love.
The withered leaves the eager searcher sees.
The hurtful ne'er without some good was born;--
The stones that mar the hill will grind the corn.
Sages of busy brain and wrinkled brow,
Searchers of Nature's secrets unconfessed,
Asking of all things Whence and Why and How--
What problems meet your larger vision now?
A genius hid from sight exclaimed.
"Two flowers," he cried, "ye mortals, mark the sign,—
Two flowers to greet the Searcher wise entwine,—
Hope and Enjoyment they are named."
The mountains and the rivers and the deserts and the dunes,
Saw you any little spirit foundling of the Fates,
Groping at the world-wall for the narrow gates
Guarded by the nine big moons?