Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - rummage
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(rummages, rummaging, rummaged) If you rummage through something, you search for something you want by moving things around in a careless or hurried way. They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits... = root VERB: V prep • Rummage is also a noun. A brief rummage will provide several pairs of gloves. N-SING: a N • Rummage about and rummage around mean the same as rummage. I opened the fridge and rummaged about... He rummaged around the post room and found the document. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n (not pron) ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. verb (~d; rummaging) Etymology: 2~ Date: 1582 intransitive verb 1. to make a thorough search or investigation 2. to engage in an undirected or haphazard search transitive verb 1. to make a thorough search through ; ransack ~d the attic 2. to examine minutely and completely 3. to discover by searching • ~r noun II. noun Etymology: obsolete English romage act of stowing cargo, modification of Middle French arrimage, from arrimer to stow, from a- (from Latin ad-) + -rimer, from Middle English rimen to open up, make room for, from Old English ry?man — more at ream Date: 1598 1. a. a confused miscellaneous collection b. items for sale at a ~ sale 2. a thorough search especially among a confusion of objects ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. & (foll. by in, through, among) intr. search, esp. untidily and unsystematically. 2 tr. (foll. by out, up) find among other things. 3 tr. (foll. by about) disarrange; make untidy in searching. --n. 1 an instance of rummaging. 2 things found by rummaging; a miscellaneous accumulation. Phrases and idioms rummage sale esp. US a jumble sale. Derivatives rummager n. Etymology: earlier as noun in obs. sense 'arranging of casks etc. in a hold': OF arrumage f. arrumer stow (as AD-, run ship's hold f. MDu. ruim ROOM) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. обыск, поиски 2. таможенный досмотр, обыск (судна) 3. хлам, разное старье; остатки товаров 4. рыться, искать, обыскивать (также rummage about) to rummage in (through) a desk —- рыться в письменном столе to rummage the attic —- обшарить весь чердак to rummage a house from top to bottom —- обыскать весь дом to rummage old clothes out of a wardrobe —- вытаскивать старую одежду из шкафа 5. производить таможенный досмотр (судна); искать контрабанду 6. рассматривать, тщательно исследовать the most thoroughly rummaged era —- наиболее тщательно изученная эпоха ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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sale распродажа случайных вещей (обыкн. с благотворительной целью) RUMMAGE 1. noun 1) поиски, обыск 2) таможенный досмотр, осмотр (судна) 3) хлам, старье 2. v. 1) рыться, искать (обыкн. rummage about, rummage in); By rummaging about among the pile of old clothes, I found the key. 2) производить таможенный досмотр 3) рассматривать, тщательно исследовать; Many valuable ideas have come through ruminating about/on/over/upon various possibilities. ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1526, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," aphetic of M.Fr. arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow cargo," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Gmc. (cf. O.N. rum "compartment in a ship," O.H.G. rum "space," O.E. rum, see room). Meaning "to search (the hold of a ship) thoroughly" first recorded 1628. Rummage sale is 1858, originally a sale at docks of unclaimed goods. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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