Search

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

To examine; to try; to put to the test.

To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

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

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"

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

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"

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