search
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Types & categories
- activity hypernym
- exploration hyponym
- foraging hyponym
- frisk hyponym
- looking for hyponym
- manhunt hyponym
- seeking hyponym
- ransacking hyponym
- scouring hyponym
- shakedown hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
The police are searching for clues
Types & categories
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Sense 3 noun
an investigation seeking answers
a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing
Types & categories
- investigating hypernym
Related & opposite
- explore derivation
Sense 4 verb
search or seek
We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
Types & categories
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Sense 5 noun
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
Types & categories
- operation hypernym
Sense 6 verb
inquire into
the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project
Types & categories
- look into hypernym
- prospect hyponym
- google hyponym
- mapquest hyponym
- re-explore hyponym
- cast about hyponym
Related & opposite
- research derivation
- search derivation
- exploration derivation
- inquiry derivation
- investigator derivation
- searcher derivation
- exploratory derivation
Sense 7 noun
the examination of alternative hypotheses
his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
Types & categories
- higher cognitive process hypernym
- hunt hyponym
- quest hyponym
Sense 8 verb
subject to a search
The police searched the suspect
Types & categories
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Sense 9 noun
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
right of search
Types & categories
- examination hypernym
Related & opposite
- search derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hunt |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | activity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | exploration |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | foraging |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | frisk |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | looking for |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | manhunt |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | seeking |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ransacking |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scouring |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shakedown |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | seeking |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dredge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | finger |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fumble |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | divine |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | surf |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | leave no stone unturned |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hunt |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | gather |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | want |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | scour |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | seek out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | quest for |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fish |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | grub |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | feel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | browse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | explore |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | investigating |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | examine |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | hunt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cruise |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | prospect |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | nose |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | operation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | research |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | exploration |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | inquiry |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | investigator |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | exploratory |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | look into |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | prospect |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | mapquest |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | re-explore |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | cast about |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | higher cognitive process |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | hunt |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | quest |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | searcher |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | examine |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | raid |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | frisk |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | strip-search |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | scan |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | rifle |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | rummage |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | comb |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | search |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | examination |