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say it: surch
search is a noun and verb meaning "the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone". It is pronounced /ˈsɝtʃ/ — surch. It carries 9 recorded senses.
an investigation seeking answers
“a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”
“the outcome justified the search”
the examination of alternative hypotheses
“his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for search come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.