search Meaning and Definition

1. n. an investigation seeking answers

2. n. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

3. n. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

4. n. the examination of alternative hypotheses

5. n. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

6. v. inquire into

7. v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

8. v. subject to a search

9. v. search or seek