- search, hunt, hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has particulars:exploration; foraging, forage; frisk, frisking; looking, looking for; manhunt; quest, seeking; ransacking, rummage; scouring; shakedown Derived forms: verb search2, verb search1 - search - an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
--2 is a kind of investigation, investigating
Derived form: verb search3 - search, lookup - 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"
--3 is a kind of operation
- search - the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
--4 is a kind of higher cognitive process
--4 has particulars: hunt; pursuit, pursuance, quest- search - boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
--5 is a kind of examination, scrutiny
Derived form: verb search4 - search - boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
- search, seek, look for - 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"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
Sam cannot search Sue
The banks search the check
They search the water
- search, look - search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
--2 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun search1, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
The men search the area for animals
The men search for animals in the area
- research, search, explore - inquire into
--3 is one way to investigate, look into
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun search2, noun searcher1
Somebody ----s something
- search - subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
--4 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun search5, noun searcher2, noun searcher1
They want to search the prisoners