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Definition: Meaning of, search in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / səːtʃ /

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search searches
  1. [countable usually singular] an attempt to find someone or something
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  2. [countable] a series of actions done by a computer to find information
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  3. in search of something looking for something
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  4. [singular] an attempt to find an explanation or solution
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
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Present Participle Third Person Singular
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  1. looking [intransitive and transitive] to try to find someone or something by looking very carefully
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  2. computer [transitive] to use a computer to find information
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  3. person [transitive] if someone in authority searches you or the things you are carrying, they look for things you might be hiding
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  4. solution [intransitive] to try to find an explanation or solution
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  5. search me! spoken used to tell someone that you do not know the answer to a question
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  6. examine [transitive] to examine something carefully in order to find something out, decide something etc
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search used in phrases

  • Boolean search (noun)
    1. computing a method of information searching in databases that combines search terms with operators AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses
  • air search radar (noun)
    1. a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft
  • binary search (noun)
    1. computer science a search in a sequentially ordered table; it works by comparing the value half way down the table with the target value, then repeatedly doing this with the block of entries which contains the target until the target is found
  • body search (noun)
    1. a thorough search for drugs, weapons etc, that might be hidden on someone's body
  • freedom from search and seizure (noun)
    1. law a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution
  • right of search (noun)
    1. the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them
  • search and destroy mission (noun)
    1. an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them
  • search and rescue mission (noun)
    1. a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them
  • search engine (noun)
    1. a computer program that helps you find information on the Internet
  • search language (noun)
    1. a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed
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search used in phrasal verbs

  • search out (phrasal verb)
    1. to work hard in order to find something
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