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noun

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunt, hunting.

An investigation seeking answers. "The outcome justified the search"

An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property. Synonym: lookup.

The examination of alternative hypotheses.

Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.

verb

(past & past part. searched; pres. part. searching)

Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of. Synonyms: look for, seek. "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

Search or seek. Synonym: look. "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

Inquire into. Synonyms: explore, research. "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

Subject to a search. "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

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"Search" Quotes from Famous Books

... you to the inn first," said the stranger, and after fixing his red lights, Dick went off with them in search of help to make the car safer ...

— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... hurried search through his desk while the young man was gone. He was so upset about his loss that he had forgotten the Government ...

— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... While some of the party are busied in washing the sands, others employ themselves farther up the torrent, where the rapidity of the stream has carried away all the clay, sand, &c. and left nothing but small pebbles. The search among these is a very troublesome task. I have seen women who have had the skin worn off the tops of their fingers in this employment. Sometimes, however, they are rewarded by finding pieces of gold, which they call sanoo birro, "gold-stones," that amply repay them for their trouble. ...

— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park

... and I said they might search me, and Mr. Shaw got angry then, and he got one of the girls to feel me all over and to turn my pockets inside out, and he called himself real kind not to get in the police. Oh, Grannie, of course they couldn't find it on me, but I was searched there ...

— Good Luck • L. T. Meade

... recently, the lady whom Uncle Remus calls "Miss Sally" missed her little seven-year-old. Making search for him through the house and through the yard, she heard the sound of voices in the old man's cabin, and, looking through the window, saw the child sitting by Uncle Remus. His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an ...

— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris

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