research
nounEtymology
Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Definitions
Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories,…
Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc. (that are currently available, or that are familiar to one's self).
- The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.
A particular instance or piece of research.
- The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
- The first step I took in this so necessary a research, was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution[…]
To search or examine with continued care
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
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To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
To receive a certain response in market research.
- Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well.
A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, Victoria, Australia
The neighborhood
- synonyminvestigation
- synonymexploration
- synonymexamination
- synonymstudy
- synonyminquiry
- synonymscrutiny
- neighborresearch octane number
- neighborresearch paper
- neighborrecherche
- neighboraction research
- neighboradvocacy research
- neighborbasic research
- neighborbioresearch
- neighborcluster research
- neighborempirical research
- neighborhistorical research
- neighbormarketing research
- neighbormarket research
Derived
antiresearch, bioresearcher, consumer research, coresearcher, customer research, dual-use research of concern, eco-research, gain-of-function research, immunoresearch, metaresearch, neuroresearch, nonresearch, nonresearcher, proresearch, researchability, researchable, research and development, research assistant, research chemical, researchee, researcher, researchful, researchist, research professor, researchship, research ship, research tree, researchy, unresearchability, unresearchable, nonresearched, nonresearching, overresearched, underresearched, unresearched, misresearch, reresearch
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at research. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at research. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at research
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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