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I. verb Etymology: Middle English cerchen, from Anglo-French cercher, sercher to travel about, investigate, search, from Late Latin circare to go about, from Latin circum round about — more at circum- Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to look into or over carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something: as a. to examine in seeking something <
searched the north field
>
b. to look through or explore by inspecting possible places of concealment or investigating suspicious circumstances c. to read thoroughly ; check; especially to examine a public record or register for information about <
search land titles
>
d. to examine for articles concealed on the person e. to look at as if to discover or penetrate intention or nature 2. to uncover, find, or come to know by inquiry or scrutiny — usually used with out intransitive verb 1. to look or inquire carefully <
searched for the papers
>
2. to make painstaking investigation or examination • searchable adjectivesearcher nounsearchingly adverb II. noun Date: 15th century 1. a. an act of searching <
a search for food
>
<
go in search of help
>
b. an act of boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas in exercise of right of search 2. obsolete a party that searches 3. power or range of penetrating; also a penetrating effect

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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