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Defenition of the word search

    • Defenition of the word search

      • To attempt to find something or someone, within a specific region or area.
      • To try to find something.
      • To attempt to locate particular information on the Internet, usually with the aid of a Search Engine.
      • To subject to a search.
      • inquire into
      • an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing" or "the outcome justified the search"
      • boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
      • the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
      • subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
      • search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
      • 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 activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
      • 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"
      • an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
      • an investigation seeking answers
      • boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
      • the examination of alternative hypotheses
      • an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
      • try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
      • subject to a search
      • search or seek

    Synonyms for the word search

      • examination
      • exploration
      • explore
      • hunt
      • hunting
      • investigate
      • look
      • look for
      • lookup
      • pursuit
      • quest
      • research
      • rummage around
      • searching
      • seek
      • seek out

    Similar words in the search

      • search
      • searched
      • searcher
      • searcher's
      • searchers
      • searches
      • searching
      • searchingly
      • searchlight
      • searchlight's
      • searchlights

    Hyponyms for the word search

      • angle
      • beat about
      • browse
      • cast about
      • cast around
      • comb
      • cruise
      • divine
      • drag
      • dredge
      • exploration
      • feel
      • finger
      • fish
      • forage
      • foraging
      • frisk
      • frisking
      • fumble
      • gather
      • go
      • go after
      • google
      • grope
      • grub
      • horn in
      • hunt
      • intrude
      • leave no stone unturned
      • looking
      • looking for
      • manhunt
      • mapquest
      • nose
      • poke
      • prospect
      • pry
      • pursuance
      • pursue
      • pursuit
      • quest
      • quest after
      • quest for
      • raid
      • ransack
      • ransacking
      • re-explore
      • rifle
      • rummage
      • scan
      • scour
      • scouring
      • seek out
      • seeking
      • shakedown
      • shop
      • strip-search
      • surf
      • want

    Hypernyms for the word search

      • activity
      • examination
      • examine
      • higher cognitive process
      • inspection
      • investigate
      • investigating
      • investigation
      • look into
      • operation
      • scrutiny
      • see

    Idioms for the word search

      • search out

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