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Scour (verb)
To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it abrasive or cleaning agent.
“He scoured the burnt food from the pan.”
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Scour (verb)
To remove sweep along or off (by a current of water).
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Scour (verb)
To clear the vomiting; to purge.
“to scour a horse”
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Scour (verb)
To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
“If a lamb is scouring, do not delay treatment.”
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Scour (verb)
To rubbing).
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Scour (verb)
To search an area thoroughly.
“They scoured the scene of the crime for clues.”
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Scour (verb)
To run with speed; to scurry.
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Scour (verb)
To move brush along.
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Scour (noun)
The caused by moving water.
“Bridge scour may scoop out scour holes and compromise the integrity of the structure.”
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Scour (noun)
A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
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Scour (noun)
A place where washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
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Search (noun)
An attempt to find something.
“With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.”
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Search (noun)
The act of searching in general.
“Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.”
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Search (verb)
To look in (a place) for something.
“I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.”
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Search (verb)
To look thoroughly.
“The police are searching for evidence in his flat.”
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Search (verb)
To look for, seek.
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Search (verb)
To probe or examine (a wound).
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Search (verb)
To examine; to try; to put to the test.
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Search (verb)
try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly
“I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing”
“Hugh will be searching for the truth”
“Daniel is then able to search out the most advantageous mortgage”
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Search (verb)
examine (a place, vehicle, or person) thoroughly in order to find something or someone
“the guards searched him for weapons”
“she searched the house from top to bottom”
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Search (verb)
look for information in (a database or the World Wide Web) using a search engine
“you can search for recipes by topic or by entering a keyword”
“I must search the Internet for one of his pictures”
“search our online archive for stories dating back to February 1996”
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Search (noun)
an act of searching for someone or something
“the police carried out a thorough search of the premises”
“he plans to go to the Himalayas in search of a yeti”
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Search (noun)
an act or instance of searching a database or the World Wide Web
“I did a search for creative-writing courses at UK universities and came up with 422”
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Search (noun)
the systematic retrieval of information, or the facility for this
“the advanced search includes options for sorting by date and specifying the news source”
“users will abandon a site if the search function doesn’t work well”
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Search (noun)
an investigation of public records to find if a property is subject to any liabilities or encumbrances.