## Meanings
1. To look carefully in order to find someone or something.
2. An attempt to find someone or something.
3. To examine a person or place carefully to find something hidden.

## Examples
- The police are searching for clues.
- The search for the missing keys started in earnest.
- The guards searched every bag at the entrance.

## Synonyms
- comb
- scour
- seek

## Related Forms
- google
- look
- research

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)ker- (turn)
- Root: serchen
- Root: sercher
- Root: cerchier
- Root: circō
- Root: circa

## Etymology
From Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from Latin circa, circus. Not related to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek.

## AI Etymology
Search is from Middle English serchen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sercher, Old French cerchier, from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), from Latin circa, circus. Not related to German suchen, which is cognate with English seek. Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (turn), Middle English serchen, xno sercher, Old French cerchier, la-lat circō, Latin circa. In current use it includes senses such as To look carefully in order to find someone or something and An attempt to find someone or something.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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