research
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: newer
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɝt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɝt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [ˈɹɪi.sɜːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: researches
Etymology: Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Senses: examples: text: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref: 2012 January 24, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:
text: The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.
glosses: 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).
examples: text: The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: 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[…]
ref: 1747, The Scots magazine, volume 9, page 567:
text: Although very numerous researches have been made on the differentiation of striped muscles, and on the termination of their motor nerve-fibres, yet the multifarious observations have often been too incomplete to lead to any but conflicting and unsatisfactory theories.
ref: 1883 December, “Zoology. A. General, including Embryology and Histology of the Vertebrata. Development of Muscle-fibres and their Union with Nerves”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, volume 3, number 6, page 821:
glosses: A particular instance or piece of research.
Synonyms: investigation
exploration
examination
study
inquiry
scrutiny
Hyponyms: action research
advocacy research
basic research
bioresearch
cluster research
empirical research
historical research
marketing research
market research
operational research
operations research
oppo research
opposition research
primary research
qualitative research
quantitative research
scientific research
secondary research
space research
structural research
time-use research
unobtrusive research
Derived terms: antiresearch
bioresearcher
consumer research
coresearcher
customer research
dual-use research of concern
eco-research
gain-of-function research
nonresearch
nonresearched
nonresearcher
nonresearching
overresearched
proresearch
researchability
researchable
research assistant
research chemical
researchee
researcher
researchful
researchist
research professor
research ship
researchship
researchy
underresearched
unresearchability
unresearchable
unresearched
Related terms: research octane number
research paper
recherche