search
Từ điển Collocation
search noun
ADJ. careful, exhaustive, extensive, painstaking, systematic, thorough | major, massive, nationwide | desperate, frantic | constant | police | routine Police conducted a routine search of all the houses in the area. | house-to-house | fingertip A team of police officers did a fingertip search of the area. | body, strip I was subjected to a body search by customs officials. | computer, Internet
VERB + SEARCH begin, launch, mount, start The police immediately launched a nationwide search for the killer. | carry out, conduct, do, make The search for the missing men was conducted in poor weather conditions. | abandon, call off The search was called off when it began to get dark.
SEARCH + NOUN operation The police mounted an extensive search operation. | party, team | warrant | engine This is one of the fastest Internet search engines.
PREP. in ~ of We're constantly in search of new talent. | ~ for the search for oil off the coast
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; hunt, hunting
- an investigation seeking answers
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; lookup
they wrote a program to do a table lookup
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
right of search
v.
- try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; seek, look for
The police are searching for clues
They are searching for the missing man in the entire county
- search or seek; look
We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!
- inquire into; research, explore
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
- subject to a search
The police searched the suspect
We searched the whole house for the missing keys
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. The process of seeking a particular file or specific data. A search is carried out by a program through comparison or calculation to determine whether a match to some pattern exists or whether some other criteria have been met. See also binary search, hash search, linear search, search and replace, wildcard character.vb. 1. To look for the location of a file. 2. To seek specific data within a file or data structure. See also replace.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
searches|searched|searching
syn.: explore hunt look for seek
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