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CEFRA2

/sɜːt͡ʃ/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To look carefully for someone or something.

  2. 02

    noun

    An attempt to find someone or something.

Examples

  • More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.

  • The bear left no stone unturned in his search for fat bugs under the rocks.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /sɛːrt͡ʃ/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. The act of searching in general.

  2. To look in (a place) for something.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An attempt to find something.

More examples

In context

  • A long search for the murder weapon

  • I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

  • Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search Inherited from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, ,circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from circus. Unrelated to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.