search vs scouring
scouring vs searchsearch and scouring both are nouns.
search is a verb but scouring is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| search | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| scouring | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
scouring is a hyponym of
search; that is, scouring is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
search:
- search: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- scouring: moving over territory to search for something
Other hyponyms of search include
exploration, forage, foraging, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, seeking, ransacking, rummage, shakedown.
| search (noun) | scouring (noun) |
|---|---|
| the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
| boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | moving over territory to search for something |
| 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 |
| search (verb) | scouring (verb) |
|---|---|
| inquire into | |
| try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | |
| subject to a search | |
| search or seek |
Words related to "search"
- activity
- angle
- beat about
- browse
- cast about
- cast around
- comb
- cruise
- divine
- drag
- dredge
- examination
- examine
- exploration
- explore
- feel
- finger
- fish
- forage
- foraging
- frisk
- frisking
- fumble
- gather
- go
- go after
- grope
- grub
- higher cognitive process
- horn in
- hunt
- hunting
- intrude
- investigate
- investigating
- investigation
- leave no stone unturned
- look
- look for
- look into
- looking
- looking for
- lookup
- manhunt
- mapquest
- nose
- operation
- poke
- prospect
- pry
- pursuance
- pursue
- pursuit
- quest
- quest after
- quest for
- raid
- ransack
- ransacking
- re-explore
- research
- rifle
- rout out
- rout up
- rummage
- scan
- scour
- scouring
- scrutiny
- searcher
- see
- seek
- seek out
- seeking
- shakedown
- shop
- strip-search
- surf
- want
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