forage vs search

search vs forage

forage and search both are nouns.

forage and search both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
forage	Yes	No	Yes	No
search	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, search is a hypernym of forage; that is, search is a word with a broader meaning than forage:

forage: the act of searching for food and provisions
search: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Other hypernyms of forage include hunt, hunting.

forage (noun)	search (noun)
the act of searching for food and provisions	the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle	boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
	an investigation seeking answers
	the examination of alternative hypotheses
	an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

forage (verb)	search (verb)
wander and feed	inquire into
collect or look around for (food)	try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
	subject to a search
	search or seek

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