search

«search» in Mova's school dictionary: to look carefully for something or someone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (search, searches, searched, searching); noun (a search, searches)

meaning for a pupil

1) To search is to look carefully for something or someone. tree →

2) To search a place or a person is to look through it carefully to find something hidden. tree →

3) To search on the internet is to type words into a search engine to find information. tree →

4) A search is the act of looking for something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life you search for lost keys or a pet; on a computer you «search» or «do a search»; in research projects at school pupils search for facts. In stories a search party looks for someone who is lost, and the reader feels worry and hope. Phrases: «search for», «search through», «in search of», «search party», «search engine», «search and rescue».

examples

• I searched everywhere for my left shoe. tree →
• We searched the internet for facts about volcanoes. tree →
• The police searched the house. tree →
• A search party went out to find the lost hiker. tree →
• The search for the missing cat lasted two days. tree →
• Search your bag before you say it is lost. tree →
• The explorers went in search of gold. tree →
• Type a word in the search box. tree →
• He searched among the shavings--no one! tree →

note

Third person «searches», past «searched». You search a place FOR a thing: «search the room for the key», not «search the key» (that would mean looking inside the key). Noun plural searches. «In search of» means looking for.

In the corpora

• Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.
• After an accident, families often set up a kids profile, turn off autoplay and turn on safe search.
• Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.
• Safe search is a setting that filters out adult results when you search, though it can miss some.
• A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «search» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.