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# search

«search» in Mova's school dictionary: **to look carefully for something or someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (search, searches, searched, searching); noun (a search, searches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To search is to look carefully for something or someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#m1)

2) To search a place or a person is to look through it carefully to find something hidden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#m2)

3) To search on the internet is to type words into a search engine to find information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#m3)

4) A search is the act of looking for something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you search for lost keys or a pet; on a computer you «search» or «do a search»; in research projects at school pupils search for facts. In stories a search party looks for someone who is lost, and the reader feels worry and hope. Phrases: «search for», «search through», «in search of», «search party», «search engine», «search and rescue».

### examples

- I searched everywhere for my left shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x1)
- We searched the internet for facts about volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x2)
- The police searched the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x3)
- A search party went out to find the lost hiker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x4)
- The search for the missing cat lasted two days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x5)
- Search your bag before you say it is lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x6)
- The explorers went in search of gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x7)
- Type a word in the search box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x8)
- He searched among the shavings--no one! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/#x9)

### note

Third person «searches», past «searched». You search a place FOR a thing: «search the room for the key», not «search the key» (that would mean looking inside the key). Noun plural searches. «In search of» means looking for.

### In the corpora

- [Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/5/)
- [After an accident, families often set up a kids profile, turn off autoplay and turn on safe search.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/21/)
- [Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/9/)
- [Safe search is a setting that filters out adult results when you search, though it can miss some.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/16/)
- [A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «search» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/search/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.