Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Searching
More specialized WordNet synsets
- exploration, geographic expedition
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
- search
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
- survey, study
- a detailed critical inspection
- search mission
- a mission to discover something
- scouring
- moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"
- search
- the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
- hunt, pursuit, quest
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- range in, home in, zero in
- direct onto a point or target, esp. by automatic navigational aids
- fix up
- find (something or someone) for; "I'll fix you up with a nice girl"
- probe, dig into, poke into
- examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill"
- search, seek, look for
- 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"
- want
- hunt or look for; want for a particular reason: "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
- scour
- examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"
- seek out
- look for a specific person or thing
- quest for, go after, quest after, pursue
- go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby"
- search
- subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
- rifle, go
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
- scan
- make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
- rummage
- search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"
- comb, ransack
- search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
- fish, angle
- seek indirectly; "fish for compliments"
- ferret, grub
- search busily; "ferret out the truth"
- carry
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer, as of a dog; "fetch and carry"
- quest
- search the trail of, as of game: "The dog went of and quested"
- trace, retrace
- to go back over again, as of a route or steps: we retraced the route we took last summer.
- backtrack, turn back, double back
- retrace one's course
- home
- return home accurately from a long distance, as of some birds; "homing pigeons"
- candle
- examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light
- glass
- scan with binoculars, as for game in the forest
- scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down
- examine hastily
- scan
- examine minutely or intensely
- pry, nose, poke
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- seek
- try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"
- quest
- make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest"
- exploratory, explorative
- serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaisance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats"
- searching
- exploring thoroughly
- nonexploratory, nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative (opposite)
- not exploratory