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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:
exploration; foraging, forage; frisk, frisking; looking, looking for; manhunt; quest, seeking; ransacking, rummage; scouring; shakedown

Derived forms: verb search₂, verb search₁
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

Derived form: verb search₃
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

Derived form: verb search₄

Verb search has 4 senses

search, seek, look for - 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"

Derived forms: noun search₁, noun searcher₂, noun searcher₁
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot search Sue
The banks search the check
They search the water
search, look - search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
--₂ is one way to examine, see

Derived forms: noun search₁, noun searcher₂, noun searcher₁
Sample sentences:
The men search the area for animals
The men search for animals in the area
research, search, explore - inquire into
--₃ is one way to investigate, look into

Derived forms: noun search₂, noun searcher₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
--₄ is one way to examine, see

Derived forms: noun search₅, noun searcher₂, noun searcher₁
Sample sentence:
They want to search the prisoners