1. Something that is found.
2. The decision of a court on issues of fact or law.

1. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport; SYN. hunting.
2. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts; SYN. hunting.
3. Any pursuit of an elusive goal.
4. A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; SYN. pursuit, quest.
5. An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport; SYN. hunt club. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Fren. queste, French quęte, from Latin quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, to ask. Related to Query, Question.
The act of searching for something; SYN. seeking.

ETYM Cf. Old Fren. cerche. Related to Search.
(Irregular plural: searches).
1. An investigation seeking answers; or.
2. An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; SYN. lookup.
3. Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.
4. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; SYN. searching, hunt, hunting.
5. The examination of alternative hypotheses. + prikaži više

In computing, extracting a specific item from a large body of data, such as a file or table. The method used depends on how the data are organized. For example, a binary search, which requires the data to be in sequence, involves first deciding which half of the data contains the required item, then which quarter, then which eighth, and so on until the item is found. + prikaži više