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Sounds | ser'ch |
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Rhymes | birch, Christchurch, church, and 4 more rhymes in erch at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. |
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Synonyms | hunt, hunting |
Narrower | exploration; foraging, forage; frisk, frisking; looking, looking for; manhunt; quest, seeking; ransacking, rummage; scouring; shakedown |
Broader | activity |
Verbs | search; search |
Meaning | An investigation seeking answers. |
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Examples | "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search" |
Broader | investigation, investigating |
Verbs | search |
Meaning | An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property. |
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Synonyms | lookup |
Broader | operation |
Meaning | The examination of alternative hypotheses. |
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Examples | "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" |
Narrower | hunt; pursuit, pursuance, quest |
Broader | higher cognitive process |
Meaning | Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas. |
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Examples | "right of search" |
Broader | examination, scrutiny |
Verbs | search |
Meaning | Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | Sam cannot search Sue; The banks search the check; They search the water |
Examples | "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
Synonyms | seek, look for |
Narrower | dredge, drag; finger; grope, fumble; divine; browse, surf; leave no stone unturned; hunt; gather; want; scour; seek out; quest for, go after, quest after, pursue; fish, angle; grub; feel; shop, browse |
Nouns | search; searcher; searcher |
Meaning | Search or seek. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | The men search the area for animals; The men search for animals in the area |
Synonyms | look |
Entailed by | rout up, rout out |
Narrower | hunt; cruise; prospect; pry, nose, poke |
Broader | examine, see |
Nouns | search; searcher; searcher |
Meaning | Inquire into. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | research, explore |
Narrower | prospect; re-explore; cast about, beat about, cast around |
Broader | investigate, look into |
Nouns | searcher; search |
Meaning | Subject to a search. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They want to search the prisoners |
Examples | "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" |
Narrower | raid; frisk; strip-search; scan; rifle, go; rummage; comb, ransack |
Broader | examine, see |
Nouns | search; searcher; searcher |