search

Plural: searches

Noun

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
• an investigation seeking answers
  • "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"
  • "the outcome justified the search"
• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
• the examination of alternative hypotheses
  • "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
  • "right of search"
• An attempt to find something.
• The act of searching in general.

Verb

Verb Forms: searched, searching, searches

• To look carefully for something, examining thoroughly.
• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
  • "The police are searching for clues"
  • "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
• search or seek
• inquire into
  • "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"
  • "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"
• subject to a search
  • "The police searched the suspect"
  • "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
• To look in (a place) for something.
• To look thoroughly.
• To look for, seek.
• To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.
• To probe or examine (a wound).
• To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Examples

• He would endlessly search his rack for an ’S’ to pluralize his high-scoring word.
• I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories.
• I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
• Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
• The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
• With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.

Synonyms

explore, hunt, hunting, look, look for, lookup, research, seek, comb, scour, sweep

Related Words

google, look, research

Anagrams of search