Dictionary Definition
search
Noun
2 an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough
search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "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"
Verb
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]
4 subject to a search; "The police searched the
suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /sɜː(r)tʃ/, /s3:(r)tS/
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tʃ
Verb
- To look throughout (a place) for something. To try and find
something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
- (followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
look throughout (a place) for something
- Catalan: cercar, buscar
- Czech: prohledat
- Dutch: doorzoeken
- Esperanto: serĉi
- Finnish: etsiä, hakea
- German: durchsuchen, absuchen
- Gujarati: શોધવું, ખોળવું
- Hebrew:
- Italian: cercare
- Japanese: 探し回る (さがしまわる, sagashimawaru)
- Korean: 찾다 (chatda)
- Lithuanian: ieškoti
- Norwegian: lete
- Persian: (jostojoo)
- Portuguese: procurar, buscar
- Romanian: căuta
- Romansch: tschertgar
- Russian: искать
- Slovene: iskati
- Swedish: söka, leta
- Telugu: వెతుకు
- Turkish: aramak
- Vietnamse: tìm
look thoroughly for
- Arabic:
- CJKV Characters: 覓, 觅
- Catalan: buscar, cercar, investigar
- Chinese: 搜查 (sōuchá), 搜寻 (sōuxún)
- Czech: hledat
- Dutch: zoeken, doorzoeken, uitkammen
- Esperanto: traserĉi
- Estonian: otsima
- Finnish: etsiä, hakea
- French: chercher
- German: suchen, durchkämmen
- Gujarati: શોધ
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: keres
- Ido: serchar
- Italian: cercare
- Japanese: 探す (さがす, sagasu)
- Korean: 찾다 (chatda)
- Norwegian: lete
- Persian: (jostojoo kardan)
- Polish: szukać
- Portuguese: buscar
- Romanian: căuta
- Romansch: tschertgar
- Russian: искать (iskát'), обыскивать (obýskivat'), обшаривать (obšárivat')
- Slovene: iskati
- Spanish: buscar
- Swedish: söka
- Telugu: అన్వేషణ (anvEshANa), వెతుకు (vetuku)
- Turkish: aramak
Noun
- An act of searching.
- An act of searching for information using a search engine or searching a database, form, table of values and or other applicable items.
Derived terms
Translations
act of searching
- Catalan: recerca
- Danish: Søgning
- Dutch: zoektocht , doorzoeking , opzoeking
- Esperanto: serĉado
- Estonian: otsing
- Finnish: haku
- German: Suche
- Gujarati: શોધ
- Hebrew:
- Italian: ricerca
- Norwegian: søk
- Persian: (jost-o-joo)
- Portuguese: busca
- Romanian: căutare, cercetare
- Slovene: iskanje
- Spanish: búsqueda
- Swedish: sökande
- Telugu: వెతుకు
act of searching using a search engine
Translations to be checked
Related terms
See also
Extensive Definition
Searching and search can refer to the
following:
Computers and computer science
Military and police
Entertainment
- The Search (1948 film)
- The Search (DS9 episode)
- Search (TV series)
- Searchin', a Leiber/Stoller song
- Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man), a 2007 single by the Young Divas
Economics
Miscellenea
- Seeker
- Search for Common Ground
- Novelty search (in patent law)
- Visual search, a type of perceptual task
search in German: Durchsuchung
search in French: Recherche (homonymie)
search in Korean: 검색
search in Hebrew: חיפוש
search in Japanese: サーチ
search in Russian: Поиск
search in Sindhi: وڪيپيڊيا:مضمون ڪيئن
ڳولجي؟
search in Yiddish: זוכן
search in Chinese: 搜索
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
analysis, angle for, ask for,
beat, beat about for, beat
the bushes, burrow, cast
about, chase, check, chivy, comb, delve, delve for, delve into,
dig, dig for, dig into,
dog, domiciliary visit,
dragnet, enquiry, examination, examine, exploration, explore, fan, fathom, fish for, follow, follow up, forage, frisk, give chase, go after, go
gunning for, go into, go through, grub, gun for, hollo after,
hound, house-search,
hunt, hunt for, hunt up,
hunting, indagate, inquire of, inquiry, inspect, inspection, investigate, look, look around, look at, look
for, look into, look over, look round, look through, look up, make
after, nose around, peer into, perquisition, perusal, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into,
posse, probe, prosecute, prowl after,
pry, pry into, pursual, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, quest, quest after, raise the
hunt, rake, ransack, ransacking, research, researching, root, rummage, run after, run down,
scan, scour, scouring, scout out, scrimmage, scrutinize, scrutiny, search for, search
into, search party, search through, search warrant,
search-and-destroy operation, searching, see to, seek, seek for, seek out, seeking, shake down, sift, sifting, skirmish, smell around,
sound, stalk, stalking, still hunt,
still-hunt, study, take
out after, try to find, turning over