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1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. Search the Scriptures. They are come to search the house. (Shak) Search me, O god, and know my heart. (Ps. Cxxxix. 23)

2. To inquire after; to look for; to seek. I will both search my sheep, and seek them out. (Ezek. Xxxiv. 11) Enough is left besides to search and know. (milton)

3. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

4. To examine; to try; to put to the test. To search out, to seek till found; to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.

Synonym: To explore, examine, scrutinize, seek, investigate, pry into, inquire.

Origin: OE. Serchen, cerchen, OF. Cerchier, F. Chercher, L. Circare to go about, fr. L. Circum, circa, around. See Circle.


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hw problem. Any help is greatly appreciated

Search on google, if don't find then ask. We do not answer home work question. Thanks.

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by dipjyoti
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:53 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: hw problem. Any help is greatly appreciated
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Animal digestive systems

I think this is what was meant in the sticky when it said research first? Then again maybe you did a search and yielded no results?

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by 2009queenb
Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:59 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Animal digestive systems
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Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... or, in history, Christian church trying to burn everyone alive who dared to oppose them - Galileo was just a famous example. What comes to the search for a creator of some sort: that in itself is not unscientifical, of course. It is completely fine to try to look for alternative ways to explain ...

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by biohazard
Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:42 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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Re: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... impossible, there are none to begin with. Eastern culture has Prophet Muhammad describing how learning how living things work keeps everyone in search of the Creator without harming religion. This scientific method is literally sacred to Islam, so there is no problem at all explaining it to ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:21 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... science legend of them all is a local reverend who had his own church and what he wrote pertaining to science and religion boils down to the search for the Creator in science that I often talk about. What they have of value is not something they believe one way or another, it is something ...

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by GaryGaulin
Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:03 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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