an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
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"
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"
subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"
a piece cut off from the main part of something
a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
suitable for cutting or severing; "a cutting tool"; "the cutting edge"
as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
arrange in a sequence
determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"