Meaning

2 senses
  1. (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

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of searching in general.

    Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.

Examples

1337 sentences
  1. I need to search for my pen.

    Мені потрібно пошукати ручку. — deniko

    ruМне нужно найти свою ручку. — marafon

    deIch muss meinen Stift suchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Is this what you were searching for?

    Ви це шукали? — shanghainese

    ruЭто то, что вы искали? — odexed

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. How is your job search going?

    Як проходить пошук роботи? — deniko

    ruКак идут поиски работы? — whatnot

    deWie verläuft die Arbeitssuche? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an attempt to find something:
Русский
By meaning 1
an attempt to find something:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an attempt to find something:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerc

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.

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Forms

plural: searches
Singularsearch
Pluralsearches

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone:hunthunting
  • an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property:lookup

Word family

1 related words
RelatedresearchA2

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 dictionary

Dictionary 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.

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