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search
countable noun: A search is an attempt to find something or someone by looking for them carefully.
verb: If a police officer or someone else in authority searches you, they look carefully to see whether you have something hidden on you.
verb: If you search a place, you look carefully for something or someone there.
verb: If you search for information on a computer, you give the computer an instruction to find that information.
verb: If you search for something or someone, you look carefully for them.

search in American English
to go over or look through for the purpose of finding something; explore; rummage; examine
intransitive verb: to inquire, investigate, examine, or seek; conduct an examination or investigation
transitive verb: to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost

search in British English
verb: to look through (a place, records, etc) thoroughly in order to find someone or something

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