College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. | | 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. | | 3. | an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. | | 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. | | 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. | | 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. | | 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. | | 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. | | 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. | | 10. | a company; assemblage. | | 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. | | 12. | British Slang. a prison. | |
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Search Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter. | | 2. | to look at or examine (a person, object, etc.) carefully in order to find something concealed: He searched the vase for signs of a crack. The police searched the suspect for weapons.
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| | 3. | to explore or examine in order to discover: They searched the hills for gold. | | 4. | to look at, read, or examine (a record, writing, collection, repository, etc.) for information: to search a property title; He searched the courthouse for a record of the deed to the land. | | 5. | to look at or beneath the superficial aspects of to discover a motive, reaction, feeling, basic truth, etc.: He searched her face for a clue to her true feelings. | | 6. | to look into, question, or scrutinize: She searched her conscience. | | 7. | (of natural elements) to pierce or penetrate: The sunlight searched the room's dark corners. | | 8. | to uncover or find by examination or exploration (often fol. by out): to search out all the facts. | | 9. | Military. to fire artillery over (an area) with successive changes in gun elevation. | | 10. | Computers. to examine (one or more files, as databases or texts) electronically, to locate specified items. | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to inquire, investigate, examine, or seek; conduct an examination or investigation. | –noun | 12. | an act or instance of searching; careful examination or investigation. | | 13. | the practice, on the part of naval officers of a belligerent nation, of boarding and examining a suspected neutral vessel at sea in order to ascertain its true nationality and determine if it is carrying contraband: the right of visit and search. | —Idiom | 14. | search me, I don't know: Why has it taken so long to reach a decision? Search me. | |
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State Definition–noun | 1. | the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health. | | 2. | the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, constitution, phase, or the like: water in a gaseous state. | | 3. | status, rank, or position in life; station: He dresses in a manner befitting his state. | | 4. | the style of living befitting a person of wealth and high rank: to travel in state. | | 5. | a particular condition of mind or feeling: to be in an excited state. | | 6. | an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition: He's been in a state since hearing about his brother's death. | | 7. | a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation. | | 8. | the territory, or one of the territories, of a government. | | 9. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America. | | 10. | the body politic as organized for civil rule and government (distinguished from church ). | | 11. | the operations or activities of a central civil government: affairs of state. | | 12. | (initial capital letter) Also called State Department. Informal. the Department of State. | | 13. | Printing. a set of copies of an edition of a publication which differ from others of the same printing because of additions, corrections, or transpositions made during printing or at any time before publication. | | 14. | the States, Informal. the United States (usually used outside its borders): After a year's study in Spain, he returned to the States. | –adjective | 15. | of or pertaining to the central civil government or authority. | | 16. | made, maintained, or chartered by or under the authority of one of the commonwealths that make up a federal union: a state highway; a state bank. | | 17. | characterized by, attended with, or involving ceremony: a state dinner. | | 18. | used on or reserved for occasions of ceremony. | –verb (used with object) | 19. | to declare definitely or specifically: She stated her position on the case. | | 20. | to set forth formally in speech or writing: to state a hypothesis. | | 21. | to set forth in proper or definite form: to state a problem. | | 23. | to fix or settle, as by authority. | —Idiom | 24. | lie in state, (of a corpse) to be exhibited publicly with honors before burial: The president's body lay in state for two days. | |
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