different between research vs eureka

English

Etymology

Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???s??t?/, /??i?.s??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?
• (US) IPA^(key): /??i.s?t?/, /?i?s?t?/

Noun

research (countable and uncountable, plural researches)

1. (uncountable, countable in some dialects) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.

   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.
   • 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 […]

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• research octane number
• research paper
• recherche

Translations

Verb

research (third-person singular simple present researches, present participle researching, simple past and past participle 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.

Translations

References

• “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.

Anagrams

• reachers, searcher

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From English research, from early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”). Forms a doublet with Dutch recherche, which is a direct borrowing from French.

Noun

research f (uncountable, diminutive researchje n)

1. research

Usage notes

The plural is very rare or non-existent.

Synonyms

• onderzoek, speurwerk, vorsing, navorsing

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (heúr?ka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first singular of ??????? (heurísk?, “to find”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ju??ik?/
• Rhymes: -i?k?

Interjection

eureka

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
   • 1821 Byron, Don Juan, 1821

     Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.

   • 1970 Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

     A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.

Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

Translations

Noun

eureka (uncountable)

1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)

See also

• aha moment
• epiphany

Dutch

Alternative forms

• heureka

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (heúr?ka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of ??????? (heurísk?, “I find”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?œy??re?ka?/, /ø??re?ka?/
• Hyphenation: eu?re?ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w.re.ka/
• Hyphenation: èu?re?ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eu??eka/, [eu???e.ka]

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka