Search
verbNoun
an investigation seeking answers
“a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”
“the outcome justified the search”
Type of:InvestigationInvestigatingboarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
“right of search”
Type of:ExaminationScrutinythe examination of alternative hypotheses
“his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
Similar:LookupType of:Operationthe activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Verb
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”
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”
Similar:Seeksubject to a search
“The police searched the suspect”
“We searched the whole house for the missing keys”
Type of:ExamineSeesearch or seek
Similar:LookType of:ExamineSee
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA