| search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
| search | an investigation seeking answers, a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing, the outcome justified the search |
| search | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas, right of search |
search
hunt hunting | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| strip search | searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes |
| search mission | a mission to discover something |
| search and destroy mission | an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam, troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them |
| air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| right of search | the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them |
| search | the examination of alternative hypotheses, his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful |
| search warrant | a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court, the warrant describes the locations where the officials may search |
| search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
| search party | a party of people to search for someone |
search
lookup | an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property, they wrote a program to do a table lookup |
| replace | substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected), He replaced the old razor blade, We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago, the insurance will replace the lost income, This antique vase can never be replaced |
research
search
explore | inquire into, the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project, He searched for information on his relatives on the web, Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness |
replace
put back | put something back where it belongs, replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it, please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them |
search
seek
look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of, The police are searching for clues, They are searching for the missing man in the entire county |
| search | subject to a search, The police searched the suspect, We searched the whole house for the missing keys |
| strip-search | search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes, He was strip-searched at the airport |
search
look | search or seek, We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest, Look elsewhere for the perfect gift! |
substitute
replace
interchange exchange | put in the place of another, switch seemingly equivalent items, the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt, substitute regular milk with fat-free milk, synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning |
supplant
replace
supersede
supervene upon
supercede | take the place or move into the position of, Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left, the computer has supplanted the slide rule, Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school |