• an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough Search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the Search"
• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of Search"
• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
• the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his Search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
• 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"
• inquire into
• 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"
• subject to a Search; "The police Searched the suspect"; "We Searched the whole house for the missing keys"
• 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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