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Definition of Search

Search

  1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
  2. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
  3. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
  4. To examine; to try; to put to the test.
  5. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
  6. The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Search Quotations

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

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Search Translations

search in Danish is ransage
search in Dutch is zoektocht, speurwerk, speurtocht
search in German is forschen, suchen, Nachforschung, durchsuchen
search in Italian is cerco, indagare
search in Portuguese is busca

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