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Research

noun

Systematic investigation to establish facts.

A search for knowledge. Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry.

verb

Attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner.

Inquire into. Synonyms: explore, search. "He searched for information on his relatives on the web" , "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

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"Research" Quotes from Famous Books

... are wise to detect, but only those of the sympathetic lover of the materials they handle—and I have found many such among the merchant collector. But even he finds identification a task as difficult as it is interesting, and spends hours of thought and research before arriving at a conclusion—and even then ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... originally in "The Ledger" of New York, and a few of them in "The Youths' Companion" of Boston, the largest two circulations in the country. I have occasionally had reason to think that they were of some service to young readers, and I may add that they represent more labor and research than would be naturally supposed from their brevity. Perhaps in this new form they may reach and influence the minds of future leaders in the great and growing realm of business. I should pity any young man who could read ...

— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton

... counterpanes only to leave his poor shivering body a prey to the unfriendly elements. An attack of lumbago that rendered him helpless from January until March followed and had decided Jan that inventors were born, not made. Thereafter he had been content to abandon the realm of research to his comrade and allow Willie to furnish the inspiration for further creative ventures. Nevertheless his retirement from the spheres of discovery did not prevent him from zealously assisting in the mechanical details that rendered Willie's schemes material. Jan not only possessed ...

— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett

... a voluminous spray of metal, presumably, upon a cowering wretch in the lower left-hand corner, who was quite plainly all in. There were tables of statistics showing the increase, side by side of appendicitis and the tinned-food industry, a matter to which I had devoted, said the print, years of research before announcing my discovery. Followed statements from half a dozen distinguished surgeons, each signed autographically, all but one rather bluntly disagreeing with me, insisting that the tin-opener cuts cleanly and, if not man's best friend, should at least be considered ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... even better, so they said, in cartloads. The hydraulic dredges were tearing it from the bed of the creek all day, and at night a great circuit of arc lights gleamed and sputtered over the roaring labour of the friends of geological research. ...

— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

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