search (
http://definr.com/search)
n 1: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find
something or someone [syn:
hunt,
hunting]
2: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the
ledgers revealed nothing" or "the outcome justified the
search"
3: 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" [syn:
lookup]
4: the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a
move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
5: boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of
search"
v 1: 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"
[syn:
seek,
look for]
2: search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the
child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect
gift!" [syn:
look]
3: inquire into [syn:
research,
explore]
4: subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We
searched the whole house for the missing keys"