Definitions for search

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Spelling: [surch]

IPA: /sɜrtʃ/

Search is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in search (acehrs).

Definitions for search

noun

1. the act of searching; careful examination or investigation: an instance of this:
2. the practice, on the part of naval officers of a belligerent nation, of boarding and examining a suspected neutral vessel at sea in order to ascertain its true nationality and determine if it is carrying contraband:
3. Computers. the act or process of electronically retrieving data, Web pages, database records, or other information from files, databases, etc., as in Boolean search; keyword search:

Idioms

1. search me, I don't know:

verb (used with object)

1. to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost:
2. to look at or examine (a person, object, etc.) carefully in order to find something concealed:
3. to explore or examine in order to discover:
4. to look at, read, or examine (a record, writing, collection, repository, etc.) for information:
5. to look at or beneath the superficial aspects of to discover a motive, reaction, feeling, basic truth, etc.:
6. to look into, question, or scrutinize:
7. (of natural elements) to pierce or penetrate:
8. to uncover or find by examination or exploration (often followed by out):
9. Military. to fire artillery over (an area) with successive changes in gun elevation.
10. Computers. to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, database records, or other information from (files, databases, etc.) by typing relevant terms into a search engine or other search tool:

verb (used without object)

1. to inquire, investigate, examine, or seek; conduct an examination or investigation.

Origin of search

1300-50; (v.) Middle English serchen, cerchen (Anglo-French sercher) Old French cerchier Late Latin circāre to go around, derivative of Latin circus circle; (noun) Middle English serche Anglo

Examples for search

Since he went to Salamis in search of you, I have not seen him until late this evening.

The History of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.

It was thus Billy Brue found him at the end of his second day's search.

search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.

The first place to search, of course, was the home of the old people.

We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril.

After a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.

He began to think busily, and finally resolved to go to the island and search for him.

The ATSB has been impressive in the way it has taken over the direction of the search for Flight 370.

In my search for answers about who I was, I pored over religious texts in search of enlightenment.