Search
name, noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 An attempt to find something. countable, uncountable
"With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest."
- 2 an investigation seeking answers wordnet
- 3 The act of searching in general. countable, uncountable
"Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently."
- 4 boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas wordnet
- 5 the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone wordnet
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- 6 the examination of alternative hypotheses wordnet
- 7 an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property wordnet
- 1 To look in (a place) for something. transitive
"I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch."
- 2 inquire into wordnet
- 3 To look thoroughly. intransitive
"The police are searching for evidence in his flat."
- 4 try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of wordnet
- 5 To look for, seek. archaic, transitive
"To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…]."
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- 6 subject to a search wordnet
- 7 To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google. transitive
"I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories."
- 8 search or seek wordnet
- 9 To probe or examine (a wound). obsolete, transitive
"Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple"
- 10 To examine; to try; to put to the test. obsolete
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines."
Etymology
From Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from Latin circa, circus. Not related to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.
Variant of Surridge.