Search (band)
WordNet
noun
(1) An investigation seeking answers
"A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"
"The outcome justified the search"
(2) Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
"Right of search"
(3) The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
(4) The examination of alternative hypotheses
"His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
(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"
verb
(6) 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"
(7) 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"
(8) Subject to a search
"The police searched the suspect"
"We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
(9) Search or seek
"We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"
"Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
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Etymology
From , from .
Verb
- To look throughout (a place) for something. To try and find something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
- (followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
- To probe or examine (a wound).
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:
- ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght, and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple [...].
- 1588, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II.3:
- Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I: