| search | |
| 1. n. An attempt to find something. | |
| With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest. | |
| 2. n. The act of searching in general. | |
| Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently. | |
| 3. v. To look in (a place) for something. | |
| I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly. | |
| The police are searching for evidence in his flat. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek. | |
| 6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound). | |
| 7. v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test. | |
