retrievable

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re·trieve

(rĭ-trēv′)

v. re·trieved, re·triev·ing, re·trieves

v.tr.

a. To get back into one's grasp, possession, or control, especially from a known place or a place of storage: retrieved his coat from the closet.

b. To go to and bring or escort back (someone): retrieved his friend from the bus station.

c. To search for, find, and bring back: divers retrieving artifacts from a shipwreck.

d. To search for, find, and carry back (killed game or a thrown object). Used of dogs.

e. To gain access to (stored information).

2. To recall to mind (a memory, for example); remember.

a. To rescue or save: tried to retrieve him from the degradation of life as a runaway.

b. Sports To make a difficult but successful return of (a ball or shuttlecock, as in tennis or badminton).

4. To restore to a former or desirable condition: did whatever he could to retrieve his honor.

5. To rectify the unfavorable consequences of; remedy: "An attempt was made to retrieve the blunder" (Francis Parkman).

v.intr.

To find and bring back game or a thrown object: a dog trained to retrieve.

1. The act of retrieving; retrieval.

2. Sports A difficult but successful return of a ball or shuttlecock.

[Middle English retreven, from Old French retrover, retruev- : re-, re- + trover, to find; see trover.]

re·triev′a·bil′i·ty n.

re·triev′a·ble adj.

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Adj. 1. retrievable - capable of being regained especially with effort; "he believed the information was retrievable"

recoverable - capable of being recovered or regained; "recoverable truth of a past event"

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retrievable

[rɪˈtriːvəbl] ADJ → recuperable ; [error etc] → reparable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

retrievable

adj

(= recoverable) → zurück-/hervor-/heraus-/herunterholbar; (= rescuable) → rettbar; (from wreckage etc) → zu bergen ; material from waste → rückgewinnbar; (Comput) information, data → abrufbar ; (after a crash) → wiederherstellbar; honour, position, money, investment → wiedererlangbar

loss, error → wiedergutzumachen pred, → wiedergutzumachend attr; situation → zu retten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

retrievable

[rɪˈtriːvəbl] adj (see vb) → ricuperabile, riconquistabile, rimediabile, richiamabile

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