Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry. See Synonyms at inquiry.
- n. Close, careful study.
- v. To engage in or perform research.
- v. To study (something) thoroughly so as to present in a detailed, accurate manner: researching the effects of acid rain.
- v. To do research for: research a magazine article.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To search or examine with continued care; examine into or inquire about diligently.
- n. Diligent inquiry, examination, or study; laborious or continued search after facts or principles; investigation: as, microscopical research; historical researches.
- n. In music, an extemporaneous composition preluding the performance of a work, and introducing some of its leading themes.
- n. Synonyms Investigation, Inquiry, etc. (see examination), exploration.
- To search again; examine anew.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
- n. countable A particular instance or piece of research.
- v. transitive To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- v. intransitive To make an extensive investigation into.
- v. transitive To search again.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth.
- n. Systematic observation of phenomena for the purpose of learning new facts or testing the application of theories to known facts; -- also called scientific research. This is the
research part of the phrase “research and development” (R&D). - v. To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
WordNet 3.0
- v. inquire into
- v. attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
- n. systematic investigation to establish facts
- n. a search for knowledge
Etymologies
- Early Modern French rechercher ("to examine closely"), from Old French recerchier ("to seek, to look for"). (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete French recerche, from recercher, to search closely, from Old French : re-, re- + cerchier, to search; see search. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_”
“The objective of this research is the development of novel approaches to creating modular computer codes which will make it much easier to develop and apply computer models to an extended range of applications in research, industry and education.”
“However, sometimes the word research is by necessity employed in the general everyday context of the word because it is the clearest way to convey the fact that the scientific method can be applied in our personal lives as well as in university laboratories.”
“In everyday language, the word research has a broad spectrum of applications.”
“The word research has both general and specialized meanings, and it is essential that I clarify how the term is being used in this book.”
“Investing in research is like investing in better brake linings, when taking your foot off the accelerator would do just as well.”
“However, this federally restricted use of the word research does not mean that the observations from personal life (herein called Type I Investigations) or experimenter pretesting (Type II Investigations) are either unimportant or uninformative and should therefore be dismissed.”
“The process of self-science extends beyond restricted semantic uses of the term research; it encompasses the deepest sense of what it means to do research.”
“What does become obvious in research is the huge cash cow that Guantanamo has become for these corporations and why they relentlessly enlist the likes of Cheney and John Bolton to keep the facilities there open.”
Think Progress » Obama: Gitmo Has ‘Been Subject To A Lot Of…Pretty Rank Politics’
“I've concluded that geoengineering research – and I emphasise the term research - is, sadly, necessary.”
The Guardian: Geoengineering: we need more evidence before we cast our vote | John Shepherd
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘research’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
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The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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museum words
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provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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( randomness, events, situations, nouns )charity, benevolence, status, feral donkeys, instincts, mind, friendship, business, invention, research, discovery, art and 21 more...
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freedom, read, liberty, success, enjoyment, learning, skill, ability, accomplishment, achievement, intellectual, joy and 11 more...
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A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for research.
frindley Perfect! Just what I needed to clinch a frindley argument I'm having. Jan 25, 2009
qroqqa 1593 G. HARVEY New Letter Ciij, Some that haue perused eloquent bookes, and researched most curious writinges.
Also quotations from Sir Henry Wotton (ante 1639), Walton (1665), Horace Walpole (1781, conscious of it as a noticeable usage), Southey (1801), Moore (1811), etc. etc.
And the OED's current revisions haven't quite reached RES- yet, so there's a good chance of antedates when they do. The corresponding verb exists in French, Italian, and Mediaeval Latin: it's not a conversion from the noun in English. Jan 21, 2009
frindley Serious question: how long has "research" been accepted as a verb? Jan 21, 2009
bilby A wonderful contribution to research. The Bogan Forensics Team will be dissecting this chat for years. Oct 31, 2008
reesetee Please, could you all take this somewhere else? Wordie isn't here for IMing. Thanks. Oct 30, 2008
brennah I HATE YOU!!!1!! YOU AARE ALL JERKS! Taylor and Bonnie you will be sorry. Oct 30, 2008
bonnie i think if your scared she will find out you don't like her, then she will have nobody. Oct 30, 2008
lojo i mean....i dont know i am confused. i mean i like her but she can be really annoying sometimes. you know what i mean? Oct 30, 2008
bonnie do you like her? Oct 30, 2008
lojo sooo......anything more about brennah? Oct 30, 2008
bonnie thats what im smelling
anyways what are you all doing for halloween?
Oct 30, 2008
lojo (bonnie) what about your upper lip? Oct 30, 2008
bonnie my upper lip Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 yea you will lol Oct 30, 2008
lojo i think i burp i might blow the whoile school away.........hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 i havent done it yet lol
what sre you smelling
Oct 30, 2008
bonnie aw gawd I can smeel it Oct 30, 2008
bonnie oops Oct 30, 2008
lojo hahahaa then do it....i want to laugh
hee hee Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 its a big one lol Oct 30, 2008
bonnie hahahahahahahahahahaha Oct 30, 2008
bonnie hahahahahahahahahahaha Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 yea me too thats how i feel Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 oh nice i need to fart l0ol Oct 30, 2008
bonnie mean either i just don't want to be around her.
Is that not liking her?
Idk whatevs Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 do you (bonnie) Oct 30, 2008
bonnie i need to sneeze
Oct 30, 2008
taylor0404 well idk if i like her
Oct 30, 2008
lojo so what do we talk about now? Oct 30, 2008
oroboros “Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.�?
– Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) Aug 28, 2007