search

Meanings

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
• an investigation seeking answers
  • "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"
  • "the outcome justified the search"
• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
• 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"
• 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
• 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"
• subject to a search
  • "The police searched the suspect"
  • "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

Synonyms

explore, hunt, hunting, look, look for, lookup, research, seek