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noun

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunt, hunting.

An investigation seeking answers. "The outcome justified the search"

An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property. Synonym: lookup.

The examination of alternative hypotheses.

Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.

verb

(past & past part. searched; pres. part. searching)

Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of. Synonyms: look for, seek. "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

Search or seek. Synonym: look. "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

Inquire into. Synonyms: explore, research. "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

Subject to a search. "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

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"Search" Quotes from Famous Books

... antagonists lay dead at his feet, and he was rushing across the corral in search of a fourth. A giant figure loomed up before him, looking more gigantic from the magnifying effect of the smoke. It was not that of a ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... philosophy. If he was in earnest about any doctrine, it was the doctrine that all knowledge is reminiscence. The following declarations are his. "Soul is older than body." "Souls are continually born over again from Hades into this life." "To search and learn is simply to revive the images of what the soul saw in its pre existent state of being in the world of realities."27 Why should we hesitate to attribute a sincere belief in the metempsychosis to the acknowledged author of ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... I don't like chasing along this way after sundown; and if we're put to it, we've got our fine search-light, you must remember," ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... find it where I seek it. For instance, if my penknife is needed, I pull out twenty things—a plough-wedge, a horse nail, an old letter, or a tattered rhyme, in short, everything but my penknife; and that, at last, after a painful, fruitless search, will be found in the unsuspected corner of an unsuspected pocket, as if on purpose thrust out of the way. Still, Sir, I long had a wishing eye to that ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... narrative, Brendan proposed to some of his disciples to set out in search of the Land of Promise, and after fasting for forty days for three days at a time, they finally embarked from the neighbourhood of Tralee. There is a very curious description of the corach[2] or skin-boat in which they embarked. It was, it is stated, 'very ...

— Brendan's Fabulous Voyage • John Patrick Crichton Stuart Bute

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