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English noun: search | |||
| 1. | search (act) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | ||
| Synonyms | hunt, hunting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, ransacking, rummage, scouring, seeking, shakedown | ||
| 2. | search (act) an investigation seeking answers | ||
| Samples | A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing. The outcome justified the search. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | investigating, investigation | ||
| 3. | search (process) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | ||
| Samples | They wrote a program to do a table lookup. | ||
| Synonyms | lookup | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | operation | ||
| 4. | search (cognition) the examination of alternative hypotheses | ||
| Samples | His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | higher cognitive process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | hunt, pursuance, pursuit, quest | ||
| 5. | search (act) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | ||
| Samples | Right of search. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | examination, scrutiny | ||
English verb: search | |||
| 1. | search (contact) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | ||
| Samples | The police are searching for clues. They are searching for the missing man in the entire county. | ||
| Examples | The banks search the check, Sam cannot search Sue , They search the water | ||
| Synonyms | look for, seek | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | angle, browse, browse, divine, drag, dredge, feel, finger, fish, fumble, gather, go after, grope, grub, hunt, leave no stone unturned, pursue, quest after, quest for, scour, seek out, shop, surf, want | ||
| 2. | search (perception) search or seek | ||
| Samples | We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest. Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!. | ||
| Examples | The men search the area for animals , The men search for animals in the area | ||
| Synonyms | look | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | examine, see | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cruise, horn in, hunt, intrude, nose, poke, prospect, pry | ||
| 3. | search (cognition) inquire into | ||
| Samples | The students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project. He searched for information on his relatives on the web. Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness. | ||
| Synonyms | explore, research | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | investigate, look into | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | beat about, cast about, cast around, google, mapquest, prospect, re-explore | ||
| 4. | search (contact) subject to a search | ||
| Samples | The police searched the suspect. We searched the whole house for the missing keys. | ||
| Examples | They want to search the prisoners | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | examine, see | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | comb, frisk, go, raid, ransack, rifle, rummage, scan, strip-search | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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