Researchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

re-search (三人称単数 現在形 re-searches, 現在分詞 re-searching, 過去形および過去分詞形 re-searched)

1. (transitive) To search again; to re-examine.

アナグラム

• searcher

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɜːtʃ/, /ˈɹiː.sɜːtʃ/
• 韻: -ɜː(r)tʃ
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹi.sɚtʃ/, /ɹiˈsɝtʃ/

名詞

research (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 researches)

1. (uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
   • 2012 January 1, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, page 87:

     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.

2. (countable, dated) A particular instance or piece of research.
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

     The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.

   • 1747, The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)

     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 […]

   • 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:

     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.

同意語

• investigation
• exploration
• examination
• study
• inquiry
• scrutiny

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• research octane number
• research paper
• recherche

動詞

research (三人称単数 現在形 researches, 現在分詞 researching, 過去形および過去分詞形 researched)

1. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
2. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
3. (transitive) To search again.

参照

• “research” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “research” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "research" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

アナグラム

• reachers, searcher