retrieval

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to access something on a computer, tablet, or smartphone
accessI tried to access the site, but my browser became unresponsive.
downloadI downloaded the software and installed it.
uploadI uploaded my changes, and the site went live.
retrieveThe data can be retrieved in a fraction of a second.
in tennis and similar sports, to successfully return a ball that is difficult to reach :
They slid deftly to retrieve seemingly impossible balls.
On the first point of the match, she retrieved a wide ball to pass her opponent at the net.
This software helps firms archive and retrieve emails.这种软件有助于公司更便捷地储存和检索电子邮件。
They've managed to retrieve most of the data.
Did they manage to retrieve anything from the fire?
She bent over to retrieve her bag from where it had fallen under the seat.
Goodwill that is lost is extremely difficult to retrieve.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving, bringing or getting back
bring
bring something back
chargeback
claw something back
giver
recover
recovery
refund
regain
regain consciousness
regrow
reintroduce
reintroduction
send
send something back
syndication
take something back
turn
turn in
turn something over to someone

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Tennis & racket sports

retrieve | American Dictionary

retrieve
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈtriv/
to find and bring back something:
Important historic documents were retrieved from a dumpster last week.

retrieval

noun[ U ]us/rɪˈtri·vəl/
information storage and retrieval

retrieve | Business English

retrieve
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈtriːv/us
IT
to get stored information from a computer:
retrieve data/informationI finally managed to retrieve the deleted data.
retrieve a record/image/file, etc.The search is designed to retrieve all the records WorldCat has for a particular book.
retrieve sth from sthThe product helps retrieve accidentally deleted image files from virtually any kind of removable media for digital cameras.
to get something back that has been lost, taken, or left somewhere:
The company has taken legal action to retrieve the stolen cash.
retrieve sth from sb/sthHe retrieved the documents from his colleague's desk.

Examples of retrieve

retrieve
This embolized to the pulmonary artery, was retrieved and replaced with an 8 mm coil.
The device was retrieved to the right femoral vein where it was removed surgically.
In laboratory settings they occur on about 10 + 20% of attempts to retrieve low-frequency targets.
Unambiguous scans within family are most useful for retrieving just the highest order of analysis.
There may be serious issues of successfully storing all the knowledge and retrieving the relevant knowledge in reasonable time.
Designers need more tools that assist in searching and retrieving analogous design solutions, especially far-field solutions.
In one instance the device was successfully retrieved after it had been released from its deployment cable.
This interaction indicates areas associated specifically with retrieving the names of known objects from vision.
The queries that do well with pseudo feedback are those queries that are already retrieving relevant documents close to the top of a document ranking.
The lexical process, although able to retrieve the spellings of familiar words from memory, cannot produce spellings for novel or unfamiliar words and nonwords.
The viability of shelf-stored and buried seeds retrieved during 15 months was determined by a cut test.
And yet, field studies are needed to retrieve this interpretation, which is forbidden, abolished, purified away by the top part.
One of the reasons to associate probabilities with grammars is to retrieve the most probable analyses that can generate a given input sentence.
Annual palliative care consultations for patients who subsequently died in the hospital were retrieved.
We conclude that the problem of the retrieving phase from two images has, in general, degenerated solutions that prevent the phase-retrieving algorithm from converging.
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