Thesaurus: search

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1. v. t. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
2. v. t. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
3. v. t. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
4. v. t. To examine; to try; to put to the test.
5. v. i. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
6. v. t. The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
7. n. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
8. n. an investigation seeking answers
9. n. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
10. n. the examination of alternative hypotheses
11. n. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
12. v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of