Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) search, hunt, hunting (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)
S: (n) search (an investigation seeking answers) "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
S: (n) search, lookup (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"
S: (n) search (the examination of alternative hypotheses) "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
S: (n) search (boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas) "right of search"
Verb
S: (v) search, seek, look for (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"
S: (v) search, look (search or seek) "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
S: (v) research, search, explore (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"
S: (v) search (subject to a search) "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"