search

Noun
  1. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone (synset 100947217)
    is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
    subtypes:
    • exploration - a careful systematic search
    • forage, foraging - the act of searching for food and provisions
    • frisk, frisking - the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
    • looking, looking for - the act of searching visually
    • manhunt - an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)
    • quest, seeking - the act of searching for something
    • ransacking, rummage - a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
    • scouring - moving over territory to search for something
    • shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place
    same as: hunt, hunting
  2. An investigation seeking answers (synset 100638597)
    "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
    is a type of: investigating, investigation - the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
  3. An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property (synset 113574763)
    "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
    is a type of: operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
    same as: lookup
  4. The examination of alternative hypotheses (synset 105778055)
    "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
    is a type of: higher cognitive process - cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use
    subtypes:
    • hunt - an instance of searching for something
    • pursuance, pursuit, quest - a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
  5. Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas (synset 100645609)
    "right of search"
    is a type of: examination, scrutiny - the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
Verb
  1. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of (synset 201318273)
    "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
    subtypes:
    same as: look for, seek
  2. Search or seek (synset 202158139)
    "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
    is a type of: examine, see - observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
    subtypes:
    same as: look
  3. Inquire into (synset 200649877)
    "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"
    is a type of: investigate, look into - investigate scientifically
    subtypes:
    • prospect - explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
    • google - search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
    • mapquest - search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program
    • re-explore - explore anew
    • beat about, cast about, cast around - search anxiously
    same as: explore, research
  4. Subject to a search (synset 201320383)
    "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
    is a type of: examine, see - observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
    subtypes:
    • raid - search for something needed or desired
    • frisk - search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets
    • strip-search - search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes
    • scan - make a wide, sweeping search of
    • go, rifle - go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
    • rummage - search haphazardly
    • comb, ransack - search thoroughly

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