Word for searching for something

What is another word for searching for?

What is it called to find something?

locate. verb. to find out the exact place where someone or something is.

What is the act of looking for something?

scour (verb) “to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.”

How do you say I’m looking for something?

1. anticipating,
2. awaiting,
3. expecting,
4. hoping (for),
5. watching (for)

What is a word for to examine carefully?

scrutinize. verb. to examine something very carefully.

What is the meaning of a feeling of excitement to do something?

Excitement is a feeling or situation full of activity, joy, exhilaration, or upheaval. One thing about excitement — it sure isn’t boring. There are a few types of excitement, but they’re all exciting — they get your attention. If you can’t wait for your birthday, you’re feeling a happy kind of excitement.

What does rummaging mean dictionary?

verb (used with object), rum·maged, rum·mag·ing. to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents. to find, bring, or fetch by searching (often followed by out or up).

What is a good synonym for explore?

explore

• analyze.
• examine.
• probe.
• research.
• scrutinize.
• search.
• test.
• try.

What is the synonym of wandering?

Some common synonyms of wander are meander, ramble, roam, rove, and traipse. While all these words mean “to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose,” wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course.

What word means to shine brightly?

radiant; gleaming; bright. resplendent; brilliant: shining talents.

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like «longing for a time in the past», then the engine will return «nostalgia». The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it’s starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a «search engine for words», or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren’t included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn’t notice, you can click on words in the search results and you’ll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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