Research
[rɪ'sɜːtʃ;'riːsɜːtʃ] or ['risɝtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) systematic investigation to establish facts.
(verb.) inquire into; 'the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project'; 'He searched for information on his relatives on the web'; 'Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness'.
(verb.) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; 'The student researched the history of that word'.
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Definition
(n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.
(v. t.) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, study, careful search.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, learning, lore,discovery, elaboration, elimination
ANT:Ignorance, superficiality, sciolism, misinvestigation, shallowness, oversight,inobservance
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Definition
n. a careful search: diligent examination or investigation: scrutiny.—v.i. to examine anew.—n. Research′er.—adj. Research′ful inquisitive prone to investigation.
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Examples
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Research has shown, however, that the latch was not broadly new with Hibbert, as it appeared in the French patent to Jeandeau, No. 1,900, of April 25, 1806. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That was long before invention became a research department full of engineers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This period of research on nickel, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To the scientists it would be a challenge--to bring these facts under the light of their researches, to extend these researches to the borders of those facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I suppose he meant Dorothea to publish his researches, eh? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His researches were carried farther and added to by Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Failing any other indication, my researches must now take the direction of an inquiry at the bank for the gentleman who has cashed these checks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Had they faced the human sources of their problem, had they tried to think of the social evil as an answer to a human need, their researches would have been different, their remedies fruitful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I always rejoice to hear of your being still employed in experimental researches into nature, and of the success you meet with. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Of all these industrious researches Miss Crawley had the full benefit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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