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search

/ search /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
an investigation seeking answers
"a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"
"the outcome justified the search"
Type of:
investigation investigating
Derived:
research explore
noun Sense 2
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
"right of search"
Type of:
examination scrutiny
noun Sense 3
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Type of:
activity
Kinds of:
exploration foraging forage frisk frisking
Derived:
hunt look seek look for
noun Sense 4
the examination of alternative hypotheses
"his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
Type of:
higher cognitive process
Kinds of:
hunt pursuit pursuance quest
noun Sense 5
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
"they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
Type of:
operation
verb Sense 6
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"
Kinds of:
dredge drag finger grope fumble
Derived:
quest seeking hunt hunting searcher
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb Sense 7
subject to a search
"The police searched the suspect"
"We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
Type of:
examine see
Kinds of:
raid frisk strip-search scan rifle
Derived:
searcher seeker quester
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb Sense 8
search or seek
"We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"
"Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
Type of:
examine see
Kinds of:
hunt cruise prospect pry nose
Derived:
hunt hunting searcher seeker quester
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb Sense 9
inquire into
Type of:
investigate look into
Kinds of:
prospect re-explore cast about beat about cast around
Derived:
exploration seeker searcher quester inquiry
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Semantic Complexity
91%
Sense Count
9
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
66
Times Searched
1
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investigation investigating examination scrutiny activity exploration foraging forage frisk frisking higher cognitive process hunt