What is the meaning of search?

noun

• The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
  • synonyms: hunt, hunting
• An investigation seeking answers.
  • usage: "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
• An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.
  • usage: "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
  • synonyms: lookup
• The examination of alternative hypotheses.
  • usage: "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
• Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.
  • usage: "right of search"

verb

• Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.
  • usage: "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
  • synonyms: seek, look for
• Search or seek.
  • usage: "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift"
  • synonyms: look
• Inquire into.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: research, explore
• Subject to a search.
  • usage: "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"