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search

UK /sɜːt͡ʃ/US /sɝt͡ʃ/

noun 2
verb 6
forms 7
phrases 2

noun2

•
a period of trying to find someone or something
- With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
•
The act of searching in general.
- Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.

verb6

•
To look in (a place) for something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
•
To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
•
To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.
- I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories.
•
(no longer used) To look for, seek.
- To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…]. — 1590
•
(no longer used) To probe or examine (a wound).
- Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound. — 1588
(no longer used) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

forms

searched · searcht · searchedst · searching · searches · searcheth · searchest

Phrases with search

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