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Meaning ferret meaning

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ferret Noun

— A small animal that eats meat. Ferrets often hunt rabbits and other small animals. Ferrets are similar to weasels and are related to weasels.

ferret Verb

— To use ferrets to hunt other animals. — If you "ferret something out" you search for it and find it. You could be trying to find something, or to solve a problem (find the answer). Often, this means you have to go through a lot of material to find a little bit you want. Do you think you can ferret the names we need out of the list.

ferret

— noun domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits — verb hound or harry relentlessly — verb hunt with ferrets — verb (= ferret out) search and discover through persistent investigation She ferreted out the truth — noun (= black-footed ferret) musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct

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Examples ferret examples

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Simple sentences

He keeps a ferret as a pet.

Movie subtitles

I've no right to ferret into your soul.
It's gonna take brains to ferret out that Polka-Dot.
It reminds me of Malone, the human ferret.
Henri Ferret, known as Henri from Nantes is on Air France flight to Orly.
Henri Ferret?
And with Ferret.
As soon as Ferret is better, go on questioning him.
You ask for Paul, on behalf of Henri Ferret.
I'm phoning on behalf of Henri Ferret.
He's detective Henri Ferret.
You have rat's ears and a ferret's nose.
It'd take half the legions of Rome to ferret them out.
All right, Bosun, fetch your ferret. Aye, Captain.
I want a signal system so perfect that if ever a ferret gets within 50 feet of any of the huts in which we're working, we can shut down without a sign.
And it's your duty to ferret it out.
What is that? I just bought it, it's a ferret.
Why did you buy the ferret?
No doubt. You have rat's ears and a ferret's nose.
All right, Bosun, fetch your ferret!
What appears to be the ferret assignments for the next week.
Sorry to break this up, but Zack seems to ferret me out just wherever I am.
They wanted a detective to ferret you out, and I talked them out of it.
It is my job to ferret out individuals who try illegally to cross racial lines.
We have got to ferret out. and stop this nefarious gang of.
Ferret out their secrets.
So, we let this ferret go down the rabbit's burrow. I studied history and literature.
You bung a ferret in.
What's the ferret?
Not according to my ferret.
A human ferret. He can sniff danger.
I just bought it, it's a ferret.
As soon as Ferret is better, go on questioning him. He must talk and he will talk.
You ask for Paul, on behalf of Henri Ferret. He'll know what it means.
Very well, I shall have to ferret you out.

News and current affairs

The recent dispatch of inspectors to verify the shutdown of North Korea's weapons reactor and the continuing efforts to ferret out Iran's nuclear intentions are only the most visible signs of its monitoring function.
If that were true, investors would abandon, en masse, their efforts to ferret out mispricing in the market, because there wouldn't be any.

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