search
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Late Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin circō Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.
Definitions
An attempt to find something.
- With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
- At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out.
The act of searching in general.
- Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
To look in (a place) for something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
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To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
- It sufficeth that they have once with care and fairness sifted the matter as far as they could, and searched into all the particulars.
To look for, seek.
- To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where[…].
- For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
- Anough is left besides to search and know.
To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.
- I searched "Paris Hilton" and found lots of unflattering stories.
To probe or examine (a wound).
- Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.
- Thus when they all had sorowed their fill, / They softly gan to search his griesly wownd[…].
To examine
To examine; to try; to put to the test.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at search. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at search. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at search
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA