(n)search, lookupan 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”
(v)search, seek, look fortry 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”
(v)research, search, exploreinquire into“the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”, “He searched for information on his relatives on the web”, “Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness”