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English

Etymology

From Old French cerchier, from Latin circare.

Pronunciation

Verb

to search (third-person singular simple present searches, present participle searching, simple past and past participle searched)

  1. (transitive) To look throughout (a place) for something. To try and find something.
    I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
  2. (intransitive) (followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
    The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
  3. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
      To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where [...].
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:
      ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght, and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple [...].
    • 1588, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II.3:
      Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.

Synonyms

Derived terms

terms derived from search (verb)
  • global search and replace
  • search and replace

Noun

search (plural searches)

  1. An attempt to find something.
    With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
  2. The act of searching in general.
    Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently

Translations

Translations
  • Arabic: طَلَب ar(ar) (ṭálab) m.
  • Finnish: etsintä fi(fi)
  • German: Suche de(de) f.
  • Icelandic: leit is(is)
  • Italian: cerca it(it) f.
  • Portuguese: busca pt(pt)
  • Spanish: búsqueda es(es) f.
  • Thai: ค้นหา th(th)

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