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noun
- An act of searching.
- (computing) An act of searching for information using a search engine or searching a database, form, table of values and or other applicable items.
Translations: - Dutch: opzoeking
- German: Suche(de)f
- Italian: ricerca(it)f
- Spanish: bíºsqueda(es)f
verb (search, es)
- (transitive) To look throughout (a place) for something. To try and find something.
- I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.
- (intransitive) (followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
- The police are searching for evidence in his flat.
Translations: - Dutch: zoeken, doorzoeken, uitkammen
- German: de(de, suchen, {{t-)durchkí¤mmen
- Italian: cercare(it)
- French: chercher(fr)
- Spanish: buscar(es)
Etymology: From cerchier, from circare.
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