search
An attempt to find somethingAn attempt to find something.
Recorded US: Dvortygirl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
» I need to search for my pen.
Ich muss meinen Stift suchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Мне нужно найти свою ручку. — marafon
Мені потрібно пошукати ручку. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)An attempt to find something.
With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
Suche
по́искpóisk, о́быскóbysk, ро́зыскrózysk
по́шукpóšuk, о́бшукóbšuk
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
(countable, uncountable)The act of searching in general.
Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
Examples
1337 sentencesI need to search for my pen.
Мені потрібно пошукати ручку. — deniko
ruМне нужно найти свою ручку. — marafon
deIch muss meinen Stift suchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Is this what you were searching for?
Ви це шукали? — shanghainese
ruЭто то, что вы искали? — odexed
Tom allowed the police to search his home.
Том дозволив поліції обшукати свій будинок. — deniko
ruТом позволил полиции обыскать свой дом. — marafon
deTom hat es zugelassen, dass die Polizei sein Haus durchsucht. — Djabby
Is this what you've been searching for all this time?
Це те, що ти шукав увесь цей час? — ascolto
deIst es das, was du die ganze Zeit gesucht hast? — samueldora
How is your job search going?
Як проходить пошук роботи? — deniko
ruКак идут поиски работы? — whatnot
deWie verläuft die Arbeitssuche? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cercInherited 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.
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Forms
plural: searchesSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- the police searched
- been searching for
- police searched
- searched for the
- in search of
- the search party
- searched everywhere
- a search warrant
- search warrant
- search party
- search the whole
- off the search
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.