search meaning
EN
[sɜːt͡ʃ] [sɝt͡ʃ] [-ɜː(ɹ)tʃ] 
US - NounPLsearchesSUF-arch
- An attempt to find something.
- The act of searching in general.
- Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- An attempt to find something.
- VerbSGsearchesPRsearchingPT, PPsearched
- (transitive) To look in (a place) for 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.
- (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
- (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
- (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
- (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
- Calculation of this measure is based on the analysis of the oxygen saturation signal searching for desaturation and resaturation patterns to obtain an estimation of the number of apneic events.
- On his third full-length record, Every Dog Has Its Day, prodigy producer and ultrapop songster Mitch Easter continues his search for the perfect hook.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Data were searched with and without the MS2 processor node which deisotopes the MS2 spectra to the +1 charge state prior to searching.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of search in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "search" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.