search

Noun

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
  • right of search
    

• the examination of alternative hypotheses
  • his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
    

• 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
    

• an investigation seeking answers
  • a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing
    
  • the outcome justified the search
    

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Verb

• subject to a search
  • The police searched the suspect
    
  • We searched the whole house for the missing keys
    

• 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
    
  • Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness
    

• search or seek
  • We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
    
  • Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lookup , hunt , hunting , research , explore , look , seek , look for