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""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"