(v. t.) To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
(v. t.) To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
(v. t.) To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
(v. t.) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
(v. i.) To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
(v. t.) The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(4) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(5) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(6) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(7) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(8) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(9) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(10) The most controversial part of the resolution is the stop and search powers.
(11) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(12) The interactions of nitrous oxide with cytochrome c oxidase isolated from bovine heart muscle have been investigated in search of an explanation for the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by the inhalation anesthetic.
(13) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(14) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
(15) Restriction site analysis, DNA sequence analysis, and computer-assisted search revealed eight retrotransposon-like elements distributed over a 25 kilobase (kb) mouse Il-6 region.
(16) A DNA sequencing of 139 bp at the 3' end of these clones and a search of the data bank revealed that the sequence was identical to the parallel domain in the human H19 gene.
(17) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(18) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(19) The molecular structure of the hexagonal crystal form of porcine pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), an aspartic proteinase from the gastric mucosa, has been determined by molecular replacement using the fungal enzyme, penicillopepsin (EC 3.4.23.6), as the search model.
(20) The rationale for using the high-risk-group research design in the search for the aetiology of schizophrenia is described.