Search-party

Definition

search /sɜ:tʃ/ v ၁။ (က) ~ (sth) (for sth/sb) ; ~ through/among sth (for sth/sb) ရွာသည္။ We searched for hours but couldn't find the book. ❍ searching in the dark for the light switch (ie feeling for it with one's hands) ❍ She searched through her drawers/among her belongings for the missing photo. ❍ The homes of suspected terrorists are regularly searched by the police. ❍ ( computing ) search a database. (ခ) ~ sb (for sth) ရွာသည္။ The police searched her for drugs. ၂။ ~ for sth ; ~ sth (for sth) ရွာသည္။ ေဖြႏွည္သည္။ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္သည္။ စိစစ္သည္။ philosophers searching for the truth ❍ search for the right words to express one's feelings ❍ I searched my memory, but couldn't remember her name. ❍ Search your conscience and ask if you're not equally to blame. See also SOUL-SEARCHING n ရွာေဖြျခင္း။ a search for a missing aircraft ❍ carry out/make repeated searches for explosives ❍ the search for knowledge/a compromise ❍ do a search of a database ❍ The search is on (ie has begun) to find Britain's best young cook. ❏ in search of sb/sth [ IDM ] ရွာသည္။ ရွာပံုေတာ္ဖြင့္သည္။ go in search of a cheap hotel ❍ soldiers/athletes in search of glory (ie trying hard to achieve victory or success). ❏ searcher n ရွာေဖြသူ။ a searcher after knowledge. ❏ searching adj စူးစမ္းေသာ။ စူးစူးစိုက္စိုက္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a searching question/interview/examination ❍ She gave me a searching look. searchingly adv ❏ search me [ IDM ] ( infml ) မေျပာတတ္ဘူး။ ‘Where's the newspaper?’ ‘Search me, I haven't seen it. ’ ❏ search out sth [ PHRV ] ရွာေဖြသည္ (သို႔) ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ search out new opportunities ❍ We've searched out some of your favourite recipes. ❏ search-party n [CGp] ရွာေဖြေရး။ ရွာေဖြေရးအဖြဲ႕။ send out a search-party. ❏ search warrant n ရွာေဖြအမိန္႔။ ရွာေဖြဝရမ္း။

Examples

1. Despite a thorough search
2. they found no drugs on him.
3. [search for] : The authorities carried out several air searches for survivors of the crash.
4. [search of] : The police have conducted an extensive search of the area.
5. [make a search] : We’ll have to make a thorough search of the office.
6. [in search of something] : Many people had left their homes to go in search of food.
7. [call off/abandon a search] : Bad weather forced the rescuers to abandon their search.
8. [search for] : The committee is involved in a search for solutions to key international problems.
9. [search of] : A search of the parish records provided useful biographical information.
10. [do a search] : You can probably get the address by doing an Internet search.
11. Founded in 1995
12. Yahoo was quick to get into search.