Search
[sɜːtʃ] or [sɝtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) an investigation seeking answers; 'a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing'; 'the outcome justified the search'.
(noun.) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; 'right of search'.
(noun.) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
(noun.) the examination of alternative hypotheses; 'his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful'.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) subject to a search; 'The police searched the suspect'; 'We searched the whole house for the missing keys'.
(verb.) search or seek; 'We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest'; 'Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!'.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
(v. t.) To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
(v. t.) To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
(v. t.) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
(v. i.) To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
(v. t.) The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
Typed by Howard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Examine, explore, scrutinize, investigate, overhaul, probe, sift, look into, search into, pry into, peer into.
v. n. Seek, inquire, mouse, peer, search, make search, make inquiry.
n. Examination, inquiry, scrutiny, research, exploration, investigation, quest, pursuit.
Typed by Humphrey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry,[See ABUSIVE]
SYN:Inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire
ANT:Pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate
Edited by Ervin
Definition
v.t. to look round to find: to seek; to examine: to inspect: to explore: to put to the test: to probe.—v.i. to seek for: to make inquiry.—n. the act of seeking or looking for: examination: inquiry: investigation: pursuit.—adj. Search′able capable of being searched.—ns. Search′ableness the state or quality of being searchable; Search′er a seeker: an inquirer or examiner: a custom-house officer: an officer who formerly apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland: a sieve or strainer.—adj. Search′ing looking over closely: penetrating: trying: severe.—adv. Search′ingly.—n. Search′ingness the quality of being searching penetrating or severe.—adj. Search′less unsearchable.—ns. Search′-light an electric arc-light used on board ship and in military operations; Search′-warr′ant a legal warrant authorising a search for stolen goods &c.—Right of search the right claimed by one nation to authorise the commanders of their cruisers to search private merchant-vessels for articles contraband of war.
Typist: Ruth
Examples
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Early the next morning the apes were astir, moving through the jungle in search of food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- YOU want more painstaking and search-making! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He turned about, in search of his second man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We shall see,' returned the old gentleman with a searching glance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Pickwick paused, and looked steadily on Mr. Winkle, who quailed beneath his leader's searching glance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had been searching among the northern hordes, and only within the past few days had they extended their quest to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They ranged in height from three to four feet, and were moving restlessly about the enclosure as though searching for food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He commands this fleet which has been searching for her since. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then he commenced groping his way about the floor of the dark chamber searching for the trap that led to the corridors beneath. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Were thy garments searched by as curious an eye, Isaac, said he, what discoveries might not be made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Every time her hand searched for either of these, it would touch the book; and, sooner or later (who knows? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They took me into the guard-house and searched me, but they found no sedition on me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I eagerly searched my reticule. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Inquiries were set on foot, and strict searches made. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Moore, who was continuing his searches in that country, was instructed to arrange for the cultivation and shipment of regular supplies of this particular species. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Jo searches the floor for some time longer, then looks up for a moment, and then down again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checked by Barry