Meaning & Definition of Search in English

1. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

2. An investigation seeking answers

• "A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"

• "The outcome justified the search"

3. 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"

4. The examination of alternative hypotheses

• "His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

5. Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• "Right of search"

1. 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"

2. Search or seek

• "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"

• "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

3. 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"

4. Subject to a search

• "The police searched the suspect"

• "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"