Yahoo Definition–noun, plural -hoos. | 1. | (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms. |
| 2. | (lowercase ) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel. |
| 3. | (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person. |
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People Definition–noun | 1. | persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think? |
| 2. | persons, whether men, women, or children, considered as numerable individuals forming a group: Twenty people volunteered to help. |
| 3. | human beings, as distinguished from animals or other beings. |
| 4. | the entire body of persons who constitute a community, tribe, nation, or other group by virtue of a common culture, history, religion, or the like: the people of Australia; the Jewish people. |
| 5. | the persons of any particular group, company, or number (sometimes used in combination): the people of a parish; educated people; salespeople. |
| 6. | the ordinary persons, as distinguished from those who have wealth, rank, influence, etc.: a man of the people. |
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the subjects, followers, or subordinates of a ruler, leader, employer, etc.: the king and his people. |
| 8. | the body of enfranchised citizens of a state: representatives chosen by the people. |
| 9. | a person's family or relatives: My grandmother's people came from Iowa. |
| 10. | (used in the possessive in Communist or left-wing countries to indicate that an institution operates under the control of or for the benefit of the people, esp. under Communist leadership): people's republic; people's army. |
| 11. | animals of a specified kind: the monkey people of the forest. |
–verb (used with object) | 12. | to furnish with people; popu
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| 13. | to supply or stock as if with people: a meadow peopled with flowers. |
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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. |
| 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.
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| 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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