search

（常与for连用）搜索，搜寻；探查，查究

搜索；查访；搜寻

search

搜寻, 查究

搜索, 搜寻, 探求, 调查

search

1. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

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2. an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"

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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"

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4. the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

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5. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"

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1. 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"

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2. search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

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3. inquire into

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4. subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"

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