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PRONUNCIATION OF FINGERTIP SEARCH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FINGERTIP SEARCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fingertip search is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FINGERTIP SEARCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fingertip search in the English dictionary

The definition of fingertip search in the dictionary is a detailed search made by passing the fingers over the scene of a crime or incident.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FINGERTIP SEARCH

fingered
fingered tremolo
fingerer
fingerglass
fingerguard
fingerhold
fingerhole
fingering
fingerless
fingerlike
fingerling
fingerling potato
fingermark
fingernail
fingerpick
fingerprint
fingerstall
fingertip
fingertip control

WORDS THAT END LIKE FINGERTIP SEARCH

applied research
audience research
body search
field research
fundamental research
global search
job search
march
market research
marketing research
motivation research
near-market research
operational research
operations research
research
right of search
rocket research
search
stem-cell research
strip-search
wordsearch

Synonyms and antonyms of fingertip search in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fingertip search» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FINGERTIP SEARCH

Find out the translation of fingertip search to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fingertip search from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fingertip search» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

指尖搜索
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

búsqueda yema del dedo
570 millions of speakers

English

fingertip search
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उंगलियों खोज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البحث الإصبع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пальца поиск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Pesquisa ponta do dedo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আঙ্গুলের ছাপ অনুসন্ধান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

recherche du bout des doigts
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Carian hujung jari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fingerspitzen Suche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

指先検索
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

손가락 검색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pandhuan fingertip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tìm kiếm ngón tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரல் நுனியில் தேடல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नक्षत्र शोध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Parmak ucu araması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ricerca polpastrello
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wyszukiwarka palca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пальця Пошук
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cautare vârful degetului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δακτύλου αναζήτηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vinger op soek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fingertopp sökning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fingertupp søk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fingertip search

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FINGERTIP SEARCH»

The term «fingertip search» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.033 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FINGERTIP SEARCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fingertip search

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FINGERTIP SEARCH»

Discover the use of fingertip search in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fingertip search and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons ...
Police search teams led by Police Constable Franklin and Police Constable Sawyer conducted a thorough fingertip search of the common approach path of the area surrounding the body and of the area on either side of the approach path.
Lord Brian Hutton, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 2004
2
Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics
Bournemouth University Centre for Forensic Sciences then undertook subsequent searches 4 and 5 years after the death of the individual. Gridding the area to ensure systematic ground coverage and a fingertip search were undertaken, with ...
Karl Ritz, Lorna Dawson, David Miller, 2008
3
The Red Dahlia
The fingertip search had found nothing incriminating in the immediate vicinity, so the search area was now being widened. Moreover, the forensic report had brought disappointing news: their girl had been thoroughly cleaned up. They had no ...
Lynda La Plante, 2007
4
Studies in Crime: An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology
This offers a distinct advantage in a scene of cnme investigation where the traditional 'fingertip' search line has to be halted to allow the logging of evidence and its position has to be measured using tapes. lt is now possible to record the ...
Carol Heron, John Hunter, Geoffrey Knupfer, 2013
5
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery
“I want a fingertip search, better late than never, of that entire area of number sixteen. That's the path, the gate, the garden.” No one dared mention that there had been a very thorough search; it was starting to feel uncomfortable in the incident ...
Lynda La Plante, 2010
6
Helmand: Diaries of Front-line Soldiers
No fighting-age males at home for us to question, but productive nonetheless. Coops got a high Valon reading while clearing an EHLS so had to go down to fingertip search. Thankfully nothing there, but a nerve wracking moment nonetheless.
Simon Weston, 2013
7
The Outcast Dead
It's likely that the abductor lives or works in easy reach of these places. I'm starting a fingertip search this morning. But we have to think: is there anything that links Judy and the Grangers, apart from geography?' 'The abductor may have known ...
Elly Griffiths, 2014
8
Gone to Ground
Officers in protective clothing would conduct a fingertip search of the immediate area, hoping that whoever set light to the van had left some physical evidence behind — a thread of trouser material caught on a tuft of rough grass, a button that ...
John Harvey, 2008
9
Radio and Television
Usually they can be found only by a time-consuming and dangerous fingertip search of the ground. However, a new system can map the location of hidden mines quickly and accurately by firing radar bullets from a helicopter. As the bullet hits ...
Ian Graham, 2003
10
Head's Tales
We could not leave via the front entrance as there had been a murder there overnight and the police were conducting a fingertip search. Who says the job is boring? In a lovely, well-appointed, hotel in a leafy suburb of Portsmouth my ...
Sandra Gordon, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FINGERTIP SEARCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fingertip search is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The big clean up of Glastonbury Festival 2015 at Worthy Farm begins
Tractors carrying magnetic strips will travel across the site to pick up tent pegs while workers will carry out a fingertip search to make sure no ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
2
The great Glastonbury clean-up: 1650 tonnes of rubbish and 5000 …
Tractors carrying magnetic strips will travel across the site to pick up tent pegs while workers will carry out a fingertip search to make sure no ... «Gloucestershire Echo, Jun 15»
3
Quinton shooting: Gun fired in same road just hours earlier
Highfield Lane was sealed off while a fingertip search of the scene is carried out.” • Anyone with information should call police on 101 or ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
4
Man shot in Quinton street in 'targeted' attack
The victim was not seriously hurt. Officers conducted a fingertip search of the scene after closing the road. West Midlands Ambulance Service ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
5
Live: Birmingham and West Midlands breaking news, sport, weather …
Highfield Lane has been sealed off while a fingertip search of the scene is carried out." West Midlands Ambulance Service had earlier said the ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
6
Make better use of PDF to improve your business
... which basically creates a text file within the PDF), you can search through them in a fraction of the time it would take to do a fingertip search. «ITProPortal, Jun 15»
7
Hatton Garden heist arrestees pictured at Westminster Court
Less than 30 miles away, in Enfield, North London, police were conducting a fingertip search of at least three properties. One is a £700,000 ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
8
Claudia Lawrence Murder Probe: Suspects Bailed
The review has involved a detailed re-examination of Miss Lawrence's home and a fingertip search of an alleyway that leads to the rear of the ... «Sky News, Apr 15»
9
Claudia Lawrence: three men arrested on suspicion of missing …
... number of searches, including a detailed re-examination of her home and a fingertip search of an alleyway that leads to the rear of the house. «The Guardian, Apr 15»
10
Missing Agnese Klavina 'is dead and her body dumped in the sea'
... Agnese was dead and her body has not been found despite a fingertip search of the Costa del Sol because she is 'at the bottom of the sea.'. «Daily Mail, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Fingertip search [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/fingertip-search>. Apr 2024 ».
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