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scavenge 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈskavənj/,
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scavenged, past participle; scavenges, 3rd person singular present; scavenging, present participle; scavenged, past tense;
  1. Search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste
    • - people sell junk scavenged from the garbage
    • - the city dump where the squatters scavenge to survive
  2. (of an animal) Search for (carrion) as food

  3. Search for discarded items or food in (a place)
    • - the mink is still commonly seen scavenging the beaches of California
  4. Remove (combustion products) from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine on the return stroke of the piston

  5. Combine with and remove (molecules, radicals, etc.) from a particular medium

  1. clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street"
  2. salvage: collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food"
  3. feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge"
  4. remove unwanted substances from
  5. Scavenging, or necrophagy, is a carnivorous feeding behaviour in which a predator consumes corpses or carrion that were not killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species. Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains. ...
  6. (Scavengers (album)) Scavengers, the second album from New York-based Calla.
  7. (Scavengers (tv show)) Scavengers was a British TV game show produced by Carlton Television, which aired across the ITV Network. It aired as a two series of 6 episodes the first of which was broadcast on Saturday Evenings at 7:00pm over the summer of 1994. ...
  8. (Scavenging (automotive)) Scavenging is the process of pushing exhausted gas-charge out of the cylinder and drawing in a fresh draught of air ready for the next cycle in automotive usage. This process is essential in having a smooth-running internal combustion engine. ...
  9. (The Scavengers) Formed at Auckland Technical Institute by Graphic Design students, Cooke, Munroe, Simons and Hart as The 1B Darlings in 1976, the band was heavily influenced by , Glam Rock and 60s US Garage Rock. ...
  10. to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse for useful material; to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities; to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next ...
  11. (Scavengers) an animal that feeds on dead or decaying material.
  12. (scavengers) animals that feed on the remains of animals it did not kill
  13. (Scavengers) Omnivores that eat dead plants or animals (i.e. vultures)
  14. (Scavengers) Species such as crows or seagulls which feed on dead or decaying organisms.
  15. (scavengers) Consumers that eat dead organic material (consuming the entire dead organism), such as vultures and hyenas.
  16. (scavenging) Searching through data residue in a system to gain unauthorized knowledge of sensitive data. [RFC2828] Searching through object residue to acquire data. [CNSSI] Searching through object residue to acquire unauthorized data. ...
  17. (scavenging) The process of looking for letterboxes in 'likely places' without the use of clues. This is most common in Dartmoor where many tors are dotted with several dozen letterboxes at a time. ...
  18. (5. Scavenging) Crude dumping is the most common method of disposal in Tanzania and often supports a large number of scavengers who extract valuable materials. On the former Dares Salaam dumping site, Tabata, there were about 450 scavengers supporting themselves from the dump [8]. ...
  19. (Scavenging) Eating or using the carcass of an animal that died naturally or was killed by other animals.
  20. (Scavenging) Searching for or collect waste or discarded items.
  21. (Scavenging) The process that uses an exhaust pulse of one pipe to help pull the exhaust pulse from the other in a “2 into 1” system.
  22. (Scavenging) The selective removal of material from the radioactive cloud from a nuclear explosion by inert substances, such as earth or water, introduced into the fireball. The term is also applied to the process of removal of fallout particles from the atmosphere by precipitation. ...
  23. (Scavenging) using discarded listings, tapes, or other information storage media to determine useful information such as access codes, passwords, or sensitive data. ...
  24. To look for meat for food that was killed by a different animal.
  25. To feed upon the meat of a dead animal that has died from natural causes.