Searching

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Searching or search may refer to:

• Search engine technology, software for finding information
  • Web search engine, a service for finding information on the World Wide Web
  • Enterprise search, software or services for finding information within organizations
• Search and seizure, a legal procedure
• Searching (horse), a racehorse
• Searching, using a computer to find an item with specified properties (e.g. specified text) among a collection of items using a search algorithm
• Search theory, an economic model applied to the study of unemployment, among other applications
• Bayesian search theory, looking for a target
• Search Games, looking for an evading target

In entertainment:

• Search (TV series), a television series
• Search (band), a Malaysian rock band
• "Searchin'", a song originally performed by The Coasters
• "Searchin'" (CeCe Peniston song), a song by CeCe Peniston
• "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", a 1983 dance song by Hazell Dean
• "Searching" (INXS song), a 1997 song by INXS
• Searching (song), a 1990s hip hop song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• "Searching", a 1980 single by Change (band)
• "Searching", a 1990s song by China Black
• "Searching" (Desperate Housewives), a TV episode of Desperate Housewives

SEARCH may also refer to:

• Study of Environmental Arctic Change, a research program
• Society For Education, Action and Research In Community Health, an organisation founded by Abhay and Rani Bang

Verb

search (third-person singular simple present searches, present participle searching, simple past and past participle searched)

1. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

   I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

2. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

   The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

3. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where [...].

4. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:

     ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght, and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple [...].

   • 1588, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II.3:

     Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.

Synonyms

• (transitive: look throughout (a place) for something): comb, scour
• (intransitive: look thoroughly): look for, seek, comb, scour

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