search
1. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone (Freq. 14)
• Syn:
hunt, hunting
• Derivationally related forms:
hunt (for: hunting), hunt (for: hunt)
• Hypernyms:
activity
• Hyponyms:
exploration, foraging, forage, frisk, frisking,
looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, seeking, ransacking,
rummage, scouring, shakedown
2. an investigation seeking answers (Freq. 5)
- a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing
- the outcome justified the search
• Hypernyms:
investigation, investigating
3. 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
• Syn:
lookup
• Hypernyms:
operation
4. the examination of alternative hypotheses
- his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
• Hypernyms:
higher cognitive process
• Hyponyms:
hunt, pursuit, pursuance, quest
5. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- right of search
• Hypernyms:
examination, scrutiny
1. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of (Freq. 13)
- The police are searching for clues
- They are searching for the missing man in the entire county
• Syn:
seek, look for
• Derivationally related forms:
seeking (for: seek), searcher
• Hyponyms:
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
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Sam cannot search Sue
- The banks search the check
- They search the water
2. search or seek (Freq. 11)
- We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
- Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!
• Syn:
look
• Derivationally related forms:
searcher
• Hypernyms:
examine, see
• Hyponyms:
hunt, cruise, prospect, intrude, horn in,
pry, nose, poke
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- The men search the area for animals
- The men search for animals in the area
3. inquire into (Freq. 3)
- 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
- Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness
• Syn:
research, explore
• Derivationally related forms:
explorative (for: explore), exploratory (for: explore), exploration (for: explore), searcher, research (for: research), researcher (for: research)
• Hypernyms:
investigate, look into
• Hyponyms:
prospect, google, mapquest, re-explore, cast about,
beat about, cast around
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. subject to a search (Freq. 2)
- The police searched the suspect
- We searched the whole house for the missing keys
• Derivationally related forms:
searcher
• Hypernyms:
examine, see
• Hyponyms:
raid, frisk, strip-search, scan, rifle,
go, rummage, comb, ransack
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to search the prisoners
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