{
  "id": "search.action",
  "term": "search",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to move in space until touching another",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "touch.together"
    ],
    "interaction": "motion through space over time brings a thing into contact with a distinct entity, producing touch through the closing of spatial separation.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed motion toward contact",
      "first contact between previously separate entities",
      "spatiotemporal convergence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space in 2012, still transmitting data from 15 billion miles away.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ants follow pheromone trails to locate food, each worker adjusting path until scent contact resumes.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Google's web crawlers traverse billions of pages daily, indexing links to populate search results.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "find.search",
    "research.investigation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "search",
    "searched",
    "searches",
    "searching"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components (space.extent, time.dimension, touch.together) to align with the definition. Definition kept tight and natural."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-search.action"
}