Search
Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Tap
Tap verb - To strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically.
How words are described
| brief | brief search | brief tap |
| short | short search | short tap |
| proper | proper search | proper tap |
| simple | simple search | simple tap |
| Other adjectives: quick, illegal, new, casual. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Fetchlands - lands which you tap and sacrifice to search your deck for other lands.
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If investigators find out via an illegal wire tap that the evidence is in Locker 475 at the train station, even if they then get a warrant to search that locker, whatever's inside is inadmissible.
Source: Stock Legal Phrases - Simply tap the search bar then press the Press Start button, handily labeled with a Pokéball.
Source: April Fools' Day
Cite this Source
Tap and Search. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tap
Search & Tap. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tap>.
Tap or Search. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tap.
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