search

/sˈɝtʃ/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
“The police are searching for clues”
search or seek
“We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”
inquire into
“the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”
subject to a search
“The police searched the suspect”

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”
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”
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”

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