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search

noun: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

noun: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"

noun: 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"

noun: the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

noun: boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"

verb: 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"

verb: search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

verb: inquire into; "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"

verb: subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"