research
/ˈɹiˌsɝt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc. (that are currently available, or that are familiar to oneself).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people."
- "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[…]"
- "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."
- "Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well."
Etymology
Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹiˌsɝt͡ʃ/