search vs prospect

search and prospect both are nouns.

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

As verbs, prospect is a hyponym of search; that is, prospect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than search:

search: inquire into
prospect: explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

Other hyponyms of search include google, mapquest, re-explore, beat about, cast about, cast around.

As verbs, prospect is a hyponym of search; that is, prospect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than search:

Other hyponyms of search include hunt, cruise, horn in, intrude, nose, poke, pry.

search (noun)	prospect (noun)
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone	a prediction of the course of a disease
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas	the visual percept of a region
an investigation seeking answers	belief about (or mental picture of) the future
the examination of alternative hypotheses	someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property	the possibility of future success

search (verb)	prospect (verb)
inquire into	explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of	search for something desirable
subject to a search
search or seek