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scour; also audit, check (out), examine, investigate, review, scan, scrutinize, survey; ascertain, descry, detect, determine, discover, ferret (out), find, find out, get, hit (on or upon), learn, locate, run down, scare up, track (down); explore, skirmish, snoop, probe, prospect

2search noun : the act of searching

search engine noun : computer software or a Web site used to search data (as text or other Web sites) for specified information

search·light noun : an apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light; also : the light projected

sear·ing adjective : very sharp, harsh or intense <~ pain>

sea scallop noun : a large scallop of the Atlantic coast of No. America that is harvested for food

sea·scape noun 1 : a view of the sea

2 : a picture representing a scene at or of the sea

sea·shell noun : the shell of a marine animal and esp. a mollusk

sea·shore noun : the shore of a sea

sea·sick adjective : nauseated by or as if by the motion of a ship

— sea·sick·ness noun

sea·side noun : SEASHORE

1season noun [ORIGIN: ME sesoun, fr. AF seison natural season, appropriate time, fr. L sation-, satio action of sowing, fr. serere to sow]

1 : one of the divisions of the year (as spring or summer)

2 : a period of the year associated with a particular activity, event, or holiday

— sea·son·al adjective

— sea·son·al·ly adverb

2season verb 1 : to make pleasant to the taste by use of salt, pepper, or spices

2 : to make (as by aging or drying) suitable for use

3 : to accustom or habituate to something (as hardship)

— sea·son·er noun

Synonyms

[1] flavor, savor, spice; also enhance, enrich, sauce; salt, pepper

[3] fortify, harden, steel, strengthen, toughen—more at HARDEN

sea·son·able adjective : occurring at a good or proper time

— sea·son·ably adverb

seasonal affective disorder noun : depression that recurs as the days grow shorter during the fall and winter

sea·soned adjective 1 : made fit by use

2 : made skillful or wise through experience

Synonyms

[2] accomplished, ace, adept, crack, experienced, expert, master, masterful, masterly, practiced, proficient, skilled, skillful, versed—more at EXPERIENCED

sea·son·ing noun : something that seasons : CONDIMENT

Synonyms

flavor, spice; also sauce

1seat noun 1 : a chair, bench, or stool for sitting on

2 : a place which serves as a capital or center

3 : the part of the body that bears the weight in sitting

Synonyms

[2] base, center, core, cynosure, eye, focus, heart, hub, mecca, nucleus—more at CENTER

[3] backside, bottom, butt, buttocks, posterior, rear, rump—more at BUTTOCKS

2seat verb 1 : to place in or on a seat

2 : to provide seats for

Synonyms

place, put, set down, sit; also ensconce, settle; lay, lie, rest; recline, repose

seat belt noun : straps designed to hold a person in a seat

SEATO abbreviation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

seat–of–the–pants adjective : employing or based on personal experience, judgment, and effort rather than technological aids <~ navigation>

sea turtle noun : any of two families of marine turtles that have the feet modified into paddles

sea urchin noun : any of numerous spiny marine echinoderms having thin brittle globular shells

sea·wall noun : an embankment to protect the shore from erosion

1seaward noun : the direction or side away from land and toward the open sea

2seaward also sea·wards adverb : toward the sea

3seaward adjective 1 : directed or situated toward the sea

2 : coming from the sea

sea·wa·ter noun : water in or from the sea

sea·way noun : an inland waterway that admits ocean shipping

sea·weed noun : a marine alga (as a kelp); also : a mass of marine algae

sea·wor·thy adjective : fit for a sea voyage

se·ba·ceous adjective : of, relating to, or secreting fatty material

sec abbreviation 1 second; secondary

2 secretary

3 section

4 [ORIGIN L secundum] according to

SEC abbreviation Securities and

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