search
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(noun) an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing" or "the outcome justified the search" |
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Related Words: investigating, investigation |
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(noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search" |
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Related Words: examination, inspection, scrutiny |
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(noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
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Synonyms: hunt, hunting, searching |
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Related Words: activity, digging, dowsing, exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, ransacking, rummage, scouring, seeking |
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(verb) 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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Synonyms: look for, seek |
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Related Words: angle, browse, divine, drag, dredge, feel, ferret, finger, fish, fumble, go after, grope, grub, maraud, pursue, quest after, quest for, scour, seek out, shop, want |
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(verb) subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" |
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Related Words: comb, examine, go, ransack, rifle, rummage, scan |
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(verb) 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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Synonyms: look |
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Related Words: examine, nose, poke, pry |
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(noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" |
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Related Words: higher cognitive process, hunt, pursuit, quest |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: lookup |
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Related Words: operation |
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(verb) inquire into |
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Synonyms: explore, research |
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Related Words: beat about, cast about, cast around, investigate, look into, prospect, re-explore |
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