Search

Definition: Search

Search

Noun

1. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.

2. An investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing" or "the outcome justified the search".

3. 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".

4. The examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful".

5. Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search".

Verb

1. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county".

2. Search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!".

3. Inquire into.

4. Subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "search" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Math

Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SEARCH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Search

Evidence

Citation, reference; legal research, literature search (experiment).

Experiment

Literature search, library research.

Inquiry

Verb: make inquiry; Noun: inquire, ask, seek, search.

Strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study; (consideration).

Noun: inquiry; request; search, research, quest, pursuit.

Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.

Adjective: inquiry; Verb: inquisitive; (curious); requisitive, requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Crosswords: Search

We'll need a search running (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

So it was, when I'd given up the search for vampires, that a vampire found me. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires, a villain (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

They are now conducting an extensive search of the surrounding systems (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area (The Fugitive; writing credit: Jeb Stuart, David Twohy)

The search has come full circle, our destinies are one (The Search is Over; performing artist: Survivor)

If you search for tenderness (Honesty; performing artist: Billy Joel)

And search the world to find (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD)

And when you find me there you'll search no more ((Everything I Do) I Do It For You; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

I search myself I want you to find me (I TOUCH MYSELF; performing artist: Divinyls)

In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)

Princeton: A Search for Answers (1973)

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972)

Search (1972)

In Search of America (1971)

The Search Is Over (performing artist: Survivor)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Oil Search Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Earth Search Sciences, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Search and Seizure in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000 (reference)

• US SEARCH.com Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Search and Seizure in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Tyler's Guide: The Healthcare Executive's Job Search (Ache Management Series) (reference)

• Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (reference)

• Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel (In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel) (reference)

• The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (reference)

• U.S. Air Force Search and Rescue Survival Training Af Regulation 64-4 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Executive Search Review (reference)

• Job Search Handbook For Educators (reference)

• Middle Search Plus - Cd-rom - Windows (reference)

• Plant Search (reference)

• Rn Career Search (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pooh's Grand Adventure - The Search for Christopher Robin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• In Search of... [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nikon Night Search Night Vision Monocular (reference)

• Choplifter: Search & Rescue (reference)

• Rugrats: Search for Reptar (reference)

• Tonka Search & Rescue 2 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Boppy Original - Word Search Quilt (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

These samples were sent back to CDC in Atlanta for testing to search for the animal reservoir of the Ebola virus. Credit: CDC.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope made the first broad search for planets far beyond ... Credit: NASA.

French tuna purse seiner F/V KERGUELEN at Mahe, Seychelles. Note helicopter on flying bridge. It is used to visually search for schools of tuna. Credit: Fisheries.

Fishermen use bridge while passing truck tows boat in search of better fishing. Credit: Fisheries.

State biologists Brad Chase and Mike Armstrong search for smelt eggs. A 2001 discovery of smelt eggs in the river led to the development of the initial development of the restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Long-legged long-beaked shorebirds wade through the shallows in search of dinner . Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Great egret wades the marsh in search of food. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

NOAA 5 lifts off. This satellite weighed 749 pounds , entered a near circular polar orbit 939.89 by 934.98 statute miles above the Earth, orbited every 116.32 minutes, and was inclined to the equator at 102.105 degrees. In addition to visible and infra-red imaging systems, it also carried early search and rescue beacon equipment. Credit: NOAA in Space.

An U.S. F-16 flies towards Rimini, Italy, to join with the Italian air force in a training mission. U.S. Air Forces from the 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, and Italian air forces from the 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, Rimini, It.

HH-60s provide combat search and rescue.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if I might advise them in the case, they would do well not to search too much into the original of governments, as they have begun de facto, lest they should find, at the foundation of most of them, something very little favourable to the design they promote, and such a power as they contend for. (Second Treatise of Government)

They therefore search after a new social science, after new social laws, that are to create these conditions. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So she went off in search of her hedgehog

You search his thoughts

This philosophy is found at great depths, and brought up by special search.

A family which the night before had been lost and fearful might search its goods to find a present for a new baby

First I take an axe and pail and go in search of water, if that be not a dream

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Search by "Marfan syndrome" (or synonyms). (references)

Search "All Biological Data" by "Keyword." (references)

Enter your search criteria, and click "Search." (references)

Business

Many practitioners use it to search for academic articles. (references)

The laws of each emirate prohibit arrest or search without probable cause. (references)

New Zealand companies regularly search the global marketplace for new lines via the Internet. (references)

Children

Moldova

Not all of the institutionalized children are orphans; the number of children entrusted to the State by needy parents, or parents leaving the country in search of work, reportedly is growing. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

The separatist authorities often stop and search incoming and outgoing vehicles. (references)

India

According to a credible source, such search operations seldom yield any results. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

No search fees are charged. (references)

New Zealand

An application is examined and a search for novelty is made. (references)

Luxembourg

National patents are valid for twenty years if a search has occurred. (references)

Human Rights

Qatar

Judicial authorities issue search warrants. (references)

United Arab Emirates

The law prohibits arrest or search without probable cause. (references)

Mozambique

There were no documented reports of illegal search activity. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

On July 25, in Temuco between 500 and 1,000 persons protested the arraignment of indigenous people accused of illegal land seizures and the execution of a search warrant and confiscation of evidence in the offices of an indigenous activist organization. (references)

Political Economy

Jamaica

In July the Prime Minister gave the JDF powers to cordon and search. (references)

HUNGARY

Some question exists of whether sufficient legal authority exists for civil ex parte search procedures. (references)

Trade

Australia

The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) has a detailed import conditions database on their website, called ICON, at http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon. Click on ICON Search and enter the commodity name and end use. (references)

Argentina

For information about this program and to find your local SBA district office, call 1-800-U-ASK-SBA or search the SBA web site at www.sba.gov. The U.S. Export Assistance Centers (USEAC) can also provide information about this program. (references)

Travel

Burma

Personal baggage is subject to a thorough search and x-ray both on arrival and departure. (references)

Women

Spain

The 1999 National Employment Action Plan gives priority to battered women who search for employment. (references)

Armenia

This may in part be accounted for by the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, which necessitates a high number of men in military service, and in part by the economic situation, which has caused men to emigrate in search of employment. (references)

Worker Rights

Burkina Faso

Some children asserted that they were going voluntarily to Cote d'Ivoire in search of work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "search": A* search ♦ aerial search pattern ♦ air search radar ♦ area search ♦ automatic search jammer ♦ be in search of smb. ♦ beam search ♦ best first search ♦ bidirectional search ♦ binary search ♦ blind search ♦ body search ♦ book search ♦ boolean search ♦ breadth first search ♦ certificate of search ♦ chained list search ♦ chaining search ♦ comparison search ♦ conflict search ♦ contour search ♦ cover search ♦ creeping line search ♦ criminal search ♦ Dark Matter Search ♦ dichotomizing search ♦ encoded search question ♦ eyeball search ♦ Fast Search and Transfer ♦ forwards search ♦ freedom from search and seizure ♦ global search ♦ global search and replace ♦ go in search of ♦ go in search of smth. ♦ in search of ♦ intercepting search ♦ line search ♦ literature search ♦ literature search experiment ♦ make a search ♦ microwave search radar ♦ narrow search ♦ onomasiological search system ♦ ordered search ♦ parallel search storage ♦ parallel sweep search ♦ quick search procedure ♦ rapid search ♦ retrospective search ♦ right of search ♦ search about ♦ search after ♦ search aircraft ♦ search and destroy mission ♦ search and rescue ♦ search and rescue mission ♦ search and rescue region ♦ search and rescue service ♦ search and rescue service unit ♦ search and rescue unit ♦ search around ♦ search beam ♦ search closely ♦ search cycle ♦ search engine ♦ search every nook and cranny ♦ search for ♦ search for criminals ♦ search for wanted persons ♦ search function ♦ search high and low ♦ search into ♦ search jammer ♦ search language ♦ search master ♦ search me ♦ search me! ♦ search mission ♦ search one's heart ♦ search one's memory ♦ search one's memory for smth. ♦ search operation ♦ search out ♦ search outcome ♦ search party ♦ search problem ♦ search radar ♦ search request ♦ search run ♦ search set ♦ search smb.'s face ♦ search space ♦ search sweeping ♦ search term ♦ search the sky ♦ search through ♦ search time ♦ search warrant ♦ search work ♦ square search. Additional references.

Beginning with "search": search-and-destroy, search-and-destroy mode, search-and-lock, search-and-replace, search-and-rescue, search-light, search-light, search-lights, search-parties, search-party, search-space, search-theoretic.

Ending with "search": graph-search, job-search, stop-and-search.

Containing "search": cross-search translation, non-search-using.

Afrikaans

afsoek. (various references)

Albanian

studioj (explore, learn, observe, read, read up, research, study, survey), studim (learning, prep, project, reconnaissance, research, studies, study, survey, surveying, tirocinium, treatment), rrëmoj (delve, dig, dive, ferret about, ferret out, forage, Mold, mole, mould, rout, rummage, scavenge), kontrolloj (check, control, examine, go through, guard, inspect, look over, make certain, master, perambulate, peruse, probe, ransack, review, revise, superintend, supervise, take charge of, take stock, verify, watch), kontroll (checkup, clutches, control, disposal, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, mastery, monitoring, probe, restraint, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), kërkim (assertion, exploration, forage, inquiry, investigation, look, plea, pursuit, quest, research, rummage, scan), gjurmim (investigation, reconnaissance, research). (various references)

Arabic 

بحث (discuss, investigation, study, to search), ‏فحص (assay, calibrate, check, check up, checking, control, examination, examine, exploration, explore, inquire about, inquire into, inspect, inspection, investigate, investigation, look into, overhaul, probe, quiz, scrutinize, search for, search into, searching, see, sound, survey, test, vet, view), ‏فتش (examine, frisk, inspect, investigate, ransack, rummage, search for), ‏حاول إيجاد, ‏تفتيش (frisk, inspection, rummage, snooping, visitation), ‏تقصى, ‏تقص, ‏سبر (exploration, explore, plumb, probe, sound), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, nose, rout, rummage, spot, strike, uncover, unearth), ‏إستكشف (explore, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, scout, scout about), ‏إستشار (advice, consult, counsel, refer), ‏بحث في (deal, treat), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references)

Basque

bila. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремеж (aim, appetite, drift, hankering, intent, intention, seeking, striving, yen, zeal), сондирам (approach, explore, probe), търсене (demand, hunting, looking for, market, quest, request, requisition, research, run, scanning, seeking, solicitation), шаря по, взирам се в, обстрелвам (fire, pelt, pepper, play, pound), обискирам, обиск (perquisition, razzia, rummage), проучване (examination, exploration, inquiry, inspection, investigation, piece of research, probe, research, study), пронизвам (impale, peg at, penetrate, rend, shoot through, spear, strike, thrust through, transfix, transpierce), претърсване (comb out, perquisition, rummage, shakedown), претърсвам (beat, draw, fish for, forage around, hunt for, rake over, rake trough, ransack, rummage in, scour, seek through), изследване (enquiry, examination, exploration, inquiry, investigation, research, scan, study, survey, test), изследвам (dig, examine, explore, inquire, inquire into, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, research, scan, study, survey, test). (various references)

Chinese 

查寻 (lookup), 搜查 . (various references)

Croatian

tražim (search for). (various references)

Czech

vyhledávat (seek, seek after), vyhledávání, prohrabat, prohledat (comb out, go through, ransack, rifle, rummage, seek through), prohlídka (examination, inspection, perusal, rummage, tour, visitation), prohlížet (browse, scan, view), pátrat (inquire, investigate, prospect, pry), pátrání (Hunt, inquest, investigation, quest), hledat (look for, prospect, quaere, scour about, search for, seek), hledání (quest). (various references)

Danish

ransage. (various references)

Dutch

zoektocht (quest), speurwerk (exploration, investigation, quest, research), speurtocht (exploration, investigation, quest, research), doorzoeken, afzoeken. (various references)

Esperanto

ser’as, serĉado (quest), traserĉi. (various references)

Farsi 

کاوش (Dig, Probe, Research, Rummage), گشتن (Go, Goggle, Grow, Roam, Roll, Swirl, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise), تکاپو (Prowl, Roam), تجسس (Research), جستجوکردن (Attempt, Comb, Fish, Grub, Look, Mouse, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Seek, Sick), جستجو (Disquisition, Hunt, Probe, Prowl, Quest, Research, Rummage), بازرسی کردن (Espy, Examine, Inspect, Proctor, Sight), بازرسی (Audit, Control, Detection, Examination). (various references)

Finnish

haku (quest). (various references)

Flemish

zoek. (various references)

French

recherche (searching), perquisition, rechercher, fouiller, fouille (searching). (various references)

German

Suchen (find, Hunt, look, look for, look out for, lookup, probe, quest, quests, search about, search around, seek, seek after, sought, strive, to hunt, to look for, to search, try, woo), Suche (finding, hunt, hunting, quest, scout, scouting, searching), durchsuchen (Frisk, go over, hunt, rummage, scour, search through, shake down, to hunt, to search), forschen (examine, explore, hunt, investigate, probe, research, seek, to hunt, to research, to search), Durchsuchung (shakedown), absuchen (comb, pick clean, pick off, scan, scour, sweep). (various references)

Greek 

έρευνα (canvass, disquisition, enquiry, inquiry, investigation, quest, research, rummage, scanning, survey), αναζήτηση (pursuit, quest). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחקר (recess, research, study, thesis), לפלפל (argue, debate), לפשפש (examine, scrutinize), לחקור (delve, explore, inquire into, probe, quest, scrutinize), לחפש (examine, hunt for, look for, quest, seek), לבדוק בקפדנות (scrutinize), לסרוק (card, comb, lacerate, scan, scour, scratch), פשפוש (examination, scrutiny), חפוש (investigation, quest), חטוט (digging, pecking, scratching, slotting), בלישה (detection), בלוש (detection, investigation, spying), בקוש (demand, prayer, want), סריקה (carding, combing, screening, searching, sweeping). (various references)

Hungarian

kutatás (disquisition, exploration, investigation, probing, quest, questing, research, scrutiny), keresés (hunting, pursuance, pursuit, quest, questing, scan). (various references)

Indonesian

pencarian (income, livelihood, quest), menggeledah (raid, see: geledah), memeriksa (examine, inspect, look into), geledah (frisk). (various references)

Irish

lorg (search for, seeking). (various references)

Italian

ricerca (demand, fieldwork, hunting, inquiry, investigation, project, pursuit, quest, research, study), perquisizione (perquisition). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捜索 (investigation), 捜査 (investigation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんきゅう (enquiry, pursuit, quest, research, single-grade), たんさく (exploration, single crop), そうさく (investigation, literary creation, production, work), そうさ (investigation, management, operation, processing, scanning), あさり (fishing, rummaging search, short-necked clam), サーチ , てはい (arrangement). (various references)

Korean 

수색. (various references)

Manx

shirrey (apply, cast about, endeavour, go after, prospect, request, require, seek, seeking, solicit, solicitation, soliciting), ronsey (ransacking), ronsaght (investigation, quest, scrutiny), ronsaghey (beat for game, consult; consultation, debate, examine, explore, forage, frisk, investigate, look into, ransack, rifle, rummage, scrutinize, scrutinizing, searching), briaght (ask for information, enquire). (various references)

Pig Latin

earchsay.(various references)

Portuguese

procura (looking-for, one is looking for, pursuance, pursuit, quest), pesquisa (exploration, inquiry, investigation, quest, rummage), busca (demand, investigation, looking-for, pursuance, pursuit, quest, seek). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

procura (one is looking for). (various references)

Romanian

scotocire (rummage), scotoci (comb, ferret, go through, grub, paw, quarry, ransack, rummage), scormoni (dig up, fan, ferret, Grout, poke up, rake, ransack, rout, rummage, scan, scrutinize, stir up), percheziţiona (Frisk), percheziţie (inquisition, perquisition, searching, visit), inspecta (examine, inspect, scout, survey, visit), face investigaţii (dig for information), examinare (examination, inspection, observation, overhaul, probe, view), examina (canvass, comb, consider, contemplate, debate, examine, explore, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look over, observe, overhaul, overlook, peer, pry into, quiz, review, scout, scrutinize, study, talk over, verify, view, visit, weigh), controla la vamã, control al bagajelor, cerceta (analyse, analyze, anatomize, ask, canvass, case, consider, consult, cross-question, delve, dip into, examine, excogiate, explore, inspect, introspect, investigate, look at, look into, look over, look through, overlook, peer, pursue, question, reconnoitre, research, screen, scrutinize, search into, seek, sift, sound, study, survey, test, try, visit), cåuta, cãutare (call, care, pursuit, quest, recognition, research, run, searching, seeking), cãuta în. (various references)

Russian 

розыск, обыскивать (ransack, rout), обыск (perquisition), поиски (looking for, quest, questing, quests), искать поиск (seek, seeking), искать (ferret about, fossick, grope, look about, look for, pick, ransack, searched, seek). (various references)

Scottish

sir (ask, request), rannsaich (examine minutely, scrutinize), rùsal, lorgaich (pursue, track). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spasilački (lifesaving, life-saving, saving), tragati (hunt up, quest, seek after), traganje (enquiry, quest), tražiti (ask for, demand, grope, hunt, inquire into, look for, pursue, request, require, search for, seek, solicit, sue, track), traženje (hunt, hunting, looking for, pursuit, quest, request, requirement, solicitation, tracer), pretresati (hash), pretres (friskiness, perquisition, raid), pretraživati (probe, scour), pretraživanje (rummage, scour), pretražiti (ransack, scan), premetačina, ispitati (assay, enquire into, examine, investigate, look into, sift, test), doznati (ascertain, find out, learn). (various references)

Spanish

búsqueda (Hunt, looking for, pursuit, quest, rummage, searching), registro (account book, book, bookmark, county, exam, inspection, marker, record, recording, register, registration, registry, searching, stop), busca (bleeper, Hunt, radiopager). (various references)

Swazi

ku-cálata (to search). (various references)

Swedish

söka (be in for, comb out, fumble, look, page, run for election, seek, take, want), forska (investigate, quarry, research). (various references)

Turkish

sondalamak, yoklamak (examine, feel, grabble, grope, inspect, look into, survey, test), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, study, survey, twig, vet, view), gedik açmak (breach, make a breach in, make inroad into), aramak (be on the look-out for, be spoiling for, call, comb, comb out, gun for, have a look-see, Hunt, hunt after, hunt for, hunt out, look, look for, Miss, poke, prospect, quest, rout, rummage, scout about, scout around, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, try to find, woo), arama (exploration, hunting, quest, reconnaissance, research, scouring, searching), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), araştırma (ascertainment, checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, explorative, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, investigative, probe, pursuit, quest, research, review, study), üstünü aramak (shake down). (various references)

Turkmen 

ideg-sorag (investigative, watchful), gцzlemek (search for), dцrmek (dig around for), agtaryю (quest), agtarmak (look for). (various references)

Ukrainian

уважно розглядати (peruse), розслідування (enquiry, inquiry, inquisition, investigation), шукати (hunt for, look for, pick, quest, seek), обшукувати (beat, prowl, ransack, rummage), обшук (rummage), пошуки (hunting, looking for, nose, prospect, prospecting, prospection), досліджувати (analyse, analyze, examine, explore, investigate, look into, prospect, research). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sờ để tìm, sự nhìn để tìm, sự nghiên cứu đang đi tìm cái gì đi tìm ai, sự lục soát sự điều tra, sự khám xét (visit). (various references)

Welsh

ymchwil (quest, research), chwilio (examine, look for), chwilfa (scrutiny). (various references)

circare, conquisitio, excusserit, excusserunt, excussi, excussio, excussisti, excussit, excusso, excussus, excute, excutere, excuteret, excutiam, excutiantur, excutias, excutiat, excutiatur, excutiens, excutient, excuties, excutiet, excutietur, excutit, excutite, inquiram, inquirat, inquiratur, inquire, inquirebant, inquirendo, inquirent, inquirentes, inquirentibus, inquirere, inquiretis, inquiri, inquirit, inquirite, inquirunt, inquisisset, inquisitione, inquisituri, investigatio, perscrutabantur, perscrutabor, perscrutans, perscrutantes, quaero. (various references)

secan. (various references)

questa. (various references)

cerchier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "search": searchable, searched, searcher, searchers, searches, searching, searchingly, searchless, searchlight, searchlights. (additional references)

Words ending with "search": research. (additional references)

Words containing "search": coresearcher, coresearchers, researchable, researched, researcher, researchers, researches, researching, researchist, researchists, unsearchable, unsearchably. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Search" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cierach, eeurgh, Gearach, Jerach, learch, rearch, saaach, Saachi, sarch, sarcy, Sarich, seach, sealch, searbh, searc, searcg, searchs, searth, seech, serac, serach, Serah, serch, serh, serk, serrch, Sgairbh, Sidrach. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arches, chares, chaser, eschar.

-1 letter: aches, acres, cares, carse, chare, chars, chase, crash, escar, hares, hears, races, reach, rheas, scare, serac, share, shear.

-2 letters: aces, ache, acre, arch, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, cash, char, each, ears, eras, haes, hare, hear, hers, race, rase, rash, recs, resh, rhea, scar, sear, sera, shea.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ars.

+1 letter: archers, braches, cahiers, cashier, chafers, charges, chasers, chaster, chawers, choreas, clasher, crashed, crasher, crashes, echards, eparchs, eschars, exarchs, hackers, hyraces, larches, marches, mesarch, oraches, parches, rachets, ranches, ratches, reaches, roaches, schmear.

+2 letters: archaise, archines, archives, archness, aspheric, batchers, becharms, brachets, branches, breaches, brechams, brechans, broaches, caroches, cashiers, cashmere, catchers, chaffers, chambers, chamfers, champers, chancres, changers, chanters, chapters, charades, charases, chargers, chariest, charleys, charlies, charmers, charnels, charters, chasseur, chatters, chaufers, cheaters, cheddars, chimeras, choleras, chorales, chresard, clashers, coachers, cranches, crashers, cratches, earaches, enchaser, eucharis, hachures, hacklers, hardcase, hatchers, hectares, horsecar, inarches, leachers, machrees, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, matchers, parchesi, patchers, peachers, poachers, preaches, precrash, purchase, rachides, rachises, ranchers, ratchets, raunches, reachers, recharts, recheats, research, scarphed, schmears, searched, searcher, searches, seraphic, shackler, snatcher, stancher, starched, starches, teachers, theriacs, thoraces, tracheas, trachles, tranches, watchers, whackers, yachters.