· the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Synonym(s): hunt, hunting

Hypernym(s): activity

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

Hypernym(s): investigation, investigating

· 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"

Synonym(s): lookup

Hypernym(s): operation

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

Hypernym(s): higher_cognitive_process

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

Hypernym(s): examination, scrutiny

· try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

Synonym(s): seek, look_for

· search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

Synonym(s): look

Hypernym(s): examine, see

· 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"

Synonym(s): research, explore

Hypernym(s): investigate, look_into

· subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

Hypernym(s): examine, see