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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

检索

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiǎn suǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Retrieval/rɪˈtriː.vəl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个数据库支持快速信息检索。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of recovering or regaining something lost or stolen.

    "The successful retrieval of the sunken vessel took nearly three weeks."
  2. 2

    The process of getting data back from a computer or storage system.

    "Advanced indexing algorithms ensure the rapid retrieval of documents from the archive."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb retrieve, which traces back to Old French retrever (re- 'back, again' + trouver 'to find'). Entering Middle English via legal and hunting terminology, it eventually broadened to denote the general recovery or fetching of objects, information, or memory.

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