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.

1. To search or seek; SYN. look.
2. To subject to a search
3. To try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; SYN. seek, look for.

1. To look for the location of a file.
2. To seek specific data within a file or data structure. See also replace.