Investigator
[ɪn'vestɪgeɪtə(r)] or [ɪn'vɛstɪɡetɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who searches diligently into a subject.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inquirer, searcher.
Edited by Jason
Examples
- Phelps, another investigator, who had been experimenting along the same lines and had taken out several patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What a plurality of hypotheses does for the scientific investigator, a plurality of stated aims may do for the instructor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Swedish investigator Scheele had, however, discovere d this same constituent of the air before 1773. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As we shall see in the nineteenth chapter, the psychology of to-day does not know enough about the work ings of the mind to prescribe a fixed mental attitude for the investigator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Aristotle advised investigators to make sure of the fac ts before seeking the explanation of the facts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In originally committing himself to this line of investigation he was well aware that he was going in a direction diametrically opposite to that followed by previous investigators. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He has made a plea, and sketched a plan which hundreds of investigators the world over must help to realize. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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