search

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• “The police are searching for clues”
• “They are searching for the missing man in the entire county”

search or seek

• “We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”
• “Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!”

inquire into

be attached; be in contact with

the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

an investigation seeking answers

• “a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”
• “the outcome justified the search”

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”

the examination of alternative hypotheses

• “his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”

boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• “right of search”