ferret

[US]/'ferɪt/
[UK]/'fɛrɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. изгнать; разыскать, захватить; охотиться с фреткой
vi. искать, расследовать
n. фретка; mustela putorius; детектив
Word Forms
Present Participleferreting
Pluralferrets
Past Participleferreted
Past Tenseferreted
Third Person Singularferrets

Phrases & Collocations

ferret out

вынюхивать

Example Sentences

ferret out the solution to a mystery.

вычислить решение загадки

to ferret the facts out

выявить факты

he had a quick ferret around .

он быстро прошерстил

she had the ability to ferret out the facts.

она обладала способностью выявлявать факты

The police failed to ferret out the truth.

Полиции не удалось вычислить правду.

She’s determined to ferret out the truth.

Она полна решимости вычислить правду.

keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret;

Прозорливый виверра Южной Азии размером с барсука.

The police ferreted about all over the house for clues.

Полиция обыскала весь дом в поисках улик.

he shambled over to the desk and ferreted around .

Он неторопливо подошел к столу и начал рыться.

German ferrets constantly spied on the Allied prisoners of war.

Немецкие барсуки постоянно шпионили за союзными военнопленными.

Resembling an overgrown ferret, the Jarvey is one of the few beasts that can actually talk.

Напоминающий огромного барсука, Jarvey - одно из немногих животных, которые могут на самом деле говорить.

"That devil of a Marius has ferreted out the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams!

"Этот проклятый Мариус вычислил гнездо миллионерши в его дереве мечтаний!"

Real-world Examples

Officials have tried vaccinating individual ferrets and they've tried treating prairie-dog burrows with flea-killer.

Чиновники пытались вакцинировать отдельных хорьков и обрабатывали норы вискашеров средством от блох.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Compilation September 2016

This little ferret is taking us for fools. -Ferret? -Fools?

Этот маленький хорёк нас за идиотов принимает. -Хорёк? -Идиоты?

Source: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

" it provides a promising tool for continued efforts to conserve the black-footed ferret" .

Source: VOA Slow English - America

And the black-footed ferret is a great example.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

There was the guy with the ferrets.

Source: Friends Season 3

Buckbeak, bored, was ferreting for worms again.

Source: 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Now, can you ferret out the fairies for us?

Source: American Horror Story Season 1

Ok. How about we get a cat or a ferret!

Source: EnglishPod 181-270

Behind him, Buckbeak spat a few ferret bones onto Hagrid's pillow.

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

By 1981, there was only one colony of ferrets living in Wyoming.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

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