search
nouns
an investigation seeking answers
"a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
is a type of (narrower)
the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
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"
is a type of (narrower)
cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
"right of search"
is a type of (narrower)
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
verbs
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"
search or seek
"We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
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"
is derived from
subject to a search
"The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
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