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  • intransitive verb. To move around in, go through, or look through in an effort to find something.
  • intransitive verb. To make a careful examination or investigation of; probe.
  • intransitive verb. To examine (a person or property) for the purpose of discovering evidence of a crime.
  • intransitive verb. To search a place or space in order to find something.
  • intransitive verb. To make a careful examination or investigation.
  • intransitive verb. To make a search for evidence.
  • noun. An act of searching.
  • noun. The examination of a person or property, as by a law enforcement officer, for the purpose of discovering evidence of a crime.
  • noun. A control mechanism on an audio or video player that rapidly advances or reverses the playing of a recording.
  • phrasal verb. To seek to find or come to know by examination.
  • idiom. (search me) Used by a speaker to indicate that he or she does not have an answer to a question just asked.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A seeking or looking, as for something lost, concealed, desired, etc.; the act of going through a receptacle, place, collection of things, or the like, with the view of finding something lost, hidden, or undiscovered; exploratory examination; quest; inquiry; investigation: as, to make search; in search of a wife; to give up the search.
  • noun. Synonyms Inquiry, Scrutiny, etc. (see examination), exploration.
  • To go through and examine carefully and in detail, as in quest of something lost, concealed, or as yet undiscovered; explore: as, to search a ship; to search one's baggage or person at the custom-house.
  • To examine by probing; probe: as, to search a wound.
  • To test; put to the test; try.
  • To look for; seek out; make search for; endeavor to find.
  • To explore or investigate.
  • To reach or penetrate to.
  • Synonyms To sift, probe.
  • 1 and Search, Scrutinize, Explore. We search a place or search for a thing by looking everywhere with a close attention; we scrutinize a thing with a close attention, without emphasizing the idea of looking throughout; we explore that which is unknown and outside of our ordinary travels or knowledge. See examination.
  • To make search; seek; look: with for before the object sought.
  • To make strict or careful inquiry; inquire.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore.
  • transitive verb. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
  • transitive verb. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe.
  • transitive verb. To examine; to try; to put to the test.
  • transitive verb. to seek till found; to find by seeking.
  • intransitive verb. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
  • noun. The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
  • noun. the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war.
  • noun. a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To look in (a place) for something.
  • verb. To look thoroughly.
  • verb. To look for, seek.
  • verb. To probe or examine (a wound).
  • noun. An attempt to find something.
  • noun. The act of searching in general.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. search or seek
  • verb. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
  • noun. an investigation seeking answers
  • noun. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
  • verb. inquire into
  • noun. the examination of alternative hypotheses
  • verb. subject to a search
  • noun. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
  • noun. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
  • Word Usage
    "+ Real time search -- “real time search” means looking through material that literally is published in real time."
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