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Meanings of trawl in English
A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
Synonyms
Examples for "dragnet"
Examples for "dragnet"
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Acton grew afraid that WhatsApp would turn into a mass surveillance dragnet.
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A wider dragnet is required, with more testing and rigorous contact tracing.
3
So the problem with us is how to get out the dragnet.
4
The State Police have spread a dragnet, but it doesn't look hopeful.
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Some of those caught in the dragnet are left scratching their heads.
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For some reason they occasionally get caught on a trawl net.
2
Large groups of fish found the escape route in the trawl net faster than small groups, suggesting they learnt from each other, he said.
3
Ms Barry said there had been no verified deaths of Maui's dolphins in set nets or trawl nets since 2002.
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The WWF commissioned a survey of five hundred people and found 83 percent support a ban on set and trawl nets.
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The plan does not set a target, called for by conservation groups, to reduce the number of sea lions killed in trawling nets.
Usage of trawl in English
1
The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl.
2
The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
3
A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
4
By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
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I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
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That dwarfed the 58 NIWA estimated died in trawl or set nets.
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The John Steel Singers Our latest find from another trawl Down Under.
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By-the-bye, how do you pass the time away before hauling the trawl?'
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And so the great annual trawl for young talent has begun yet again.
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If you can trawl 100 years of papers in five seconds, why not?
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A trawl through the week's papers does turn up a few possible sightings.
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A trawl two weeks ago had set the figure at 97.
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Nothing for him there, then; he decided to trawl the inns and workshops.
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Survey of London, by John Stow A compendious street-by-street trawl through Elizabethan London.
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The reporting involved a trawl of comments on Mumsnet and Twitter.
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The Exodus, fishing for whitefish, had made its fourth trawl of the day.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Trawl through the time
Trawl across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Rare
United States of America
Rare