Search

/sɜːt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

An attempt to find something..

Definitions by Sense

1. An attempt to find something.
2. The act of searching in general.
3. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
4. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
5. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
6. (transitive) To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
8. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Example Sentences

With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.

At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out.

Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.

Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.

I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

It sufficeth that they have once with care and fairness sifted the matter as far as they could, and searched into all the particulars.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.

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• searches
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• searchest
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