1. [noun] An attempt to find something.
2. [noun] The act of searching in general.
3. [verb] (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
4. [verb] (intransitive) (followed by 'for') To look thoroughly.
5. [verb] (transitive) (now rare) To look for, seek.
6. [verb] (transitive) (obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
7. [verb] (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
8. [noun] The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
9. [noun] An investigation seeking answers; 'a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing'; 'the outcome justified the search'.
10. [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'.
11. [noun] The examination of alternative hypotheses; 'his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful'.
12. [noun] Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; 'right of search'.
13. [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'.
14. [verb] Search or seek; 'We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest'; 'Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!'.
15. [verb] Inquire into; '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'.
16. [verb] Subject to a search; 'The police searched the suspect'; 'We searched the whole house for the missing keys'.
