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Nouns

• (n) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone hunting, hunt,
• (n) an investigation seeking answers
  • a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing
  • the outcome justified the search
• (n) 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
  lookup,
• (n) the examination of alternative hypotheses
  • his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
• (n) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
  • right of search

Verbs

• (v) 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
  look for, seek,
• (v) search or seek
  • We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
  • Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!
  look,
• (v) 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
  explore, research,
• (v) subject to a search
  • The police searched the suspect
  • We searched the whole house for the missing keys

Synonyms

look for seek hunting hunt look explore research lookup

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