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Noun search has 5 senses
- search, hunt, hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has particulars:
- search - an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
--2 is a kind of investigation, investigating
- search, lookup - 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"
--3 is a kind of operation
- search - the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
--4 is a kind of higher cognitive process
--4 has particulars: hunt; pursuit, pursuance, quest
- search - boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
--5 is a kind of examination, scrutiny
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