Dictionary definition · search
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"
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"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).