What is search?

  • (verb): Subject to a search.
    Example: "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on search:

Search And Rescue - Types of Search and Rescue - Ground Search and Rescue
... Ground search and rescue is the search for persons who are lost or in distress on land or inland waterways ... Traditionally associated with wilderness zones, ground search and rescue services are increasingly required in urban and suburban areas to locate ... Ground search and rescue missions that occur in urban areas should not be confused with "Urban SAR", which in many jurisdictions refers to the location and extraction of people from collapsed ...
Search And Rescue
... Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger ... The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over ... These include Mountain rescue ground search and rescue, including the use of search and rescue dogs urban search and rescue in cities combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water ...
Search And Rescue - Types of Search and Rescue - Urban Search and Rescue
... Urban search and rescue (US R or USAR), also referred to as Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR), is the location and rescue of persons from collapsed buildings or ... Unlike traditional ground search and rescue workers, most US R responders also have basic training in structural collapse and the dangers associated with live ...
Michael Wood (historian)
... documentary series, including Great Railway Journeys (1980), Art of the Western World, Legacy A Search for the Origins of Civilization, In the Footsteps of ... He has also written a number of books on English history including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England and In Search of Shakespeare ...
Simulated Annealing - Related Methods
... Tabu search normally moves to neighbouring states of lower energy, but will take uphill moves when it finds itself stuck in a local minimum and avoids cycles by keeping a "taboo list" of solutions ... Reactive search optimization focuses on combining machine learning with optimization, by adding an internal feedback loop to self-tune the free parameters of ... Harmony search mimics musicians in improvisation process where each musician plays a note for finding a best harmony all together ...

More definitions of "search":

  • (noun): An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.
    Synonyms: lookup
  • (noun): An investigation seeking answers.
    Example: "A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
  • (verb): Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.
    Synonyms: seek, look for
  • (noun): The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
    Synonyms: hunt, hunting
  • (noun): Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas.
    Example: "Right of search"
  • (verb): Search or seek.
    Synonyms: look
  • (noun): The examination of alternative hypotheses.
    Example: "His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"

Famous quotes containing the word search:

    You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it—can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
    Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
    W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)