Word Finder - investigate

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To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.

example

to investigate the causes of natural phenomena

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To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.

example

to investigate an unsolved murder

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To conduct an inquiry or examination.

He gave orders to investigate the matter.

I promised you I'd investigate this as thoroughly as I could.

Police are continuing to investigate while a search for the body is underway.

Giddon had barely left the yard on Diablo and Lisa instantly recognized it as a chance to investigate the building.

Later she discovered that Alice had made the call when she went to investigate why Lori's car was there.

She opened her eyes to investigate the land on the other side.

There wasn't time to investigate him before the wedding – not that she would have the slightest idea how to do that anyway.

You're thankful for any and all tips and investigate them regardless of source.

Dean was sure she was concerned that he'd attempt to investigate, but he had no such intention.

He changed into a clean shirt as he briefly described hearing the accident, climbing down to investigate and discovering Billy Langstrom's body.

The distinctive task of geography as a science is to investigate the control exercised by the crust-forms directly or indirectly upon the various mobile distributions.

Another reason assigned by the committee appointed by the Treasury in 1875 " to investigate the causes of the increased cost of the telegraphic service since the acquisition of the telegraphs by the state " is the loss on the business of transmitting Press messages, which has been estimated as at least £300,000 a year.

Hence arises Midrash, exposition, from darash to "investigate" a scriptural passage.

She only provides tips and assumes the authorities will use our call to investigate the crime and reach their own conclusions with legally obtained evidence.

She told me she thought she loved Giddon, but at the same time she was having Howard investigate him.

When Howie is unable to verify what we do perhaps he'll let us investigate what's causing his mind to create these fantasies.

If Fitzgerald was involved with Billy's death, some official should investigate and do something about it.

Yet Howard said he hired Allen because she asked him to investigate Yancey.

You're just starting to investigate.

He was among the first to investigate the action of medicines on healthy persons.

The sheriff has a duty to investigate.

Accustomed freely and fearlessly to investigate whatever came before him, and swayed by a scrupulous dread of insincerity, he was doomed to long and anxious hesitation concerning some of the fundamental points of theology before arriving at a firm conviction of the truth of Christianity.

The price of a mask or machine is going to determine whether you investigate further.

Easy Reading Glasses is a company you might want to investigate further as they have several different styles of frames that might be of interest.

Neither wanted to retrace their steps to investigate.

So far we have only considered rays of homogeneous light, and it remains to investigate how lights of varying refrangibilities will be transmitted.

The British Cabinet thereupon despatched Lord Kitchener to the Aegean to investigate and to report.

In doing this he was led to investigate the grounds of the lawfulness of war in general.

Diffusion couples will be set up to investigate the kinetics of the process.

If you are unsure about your conditions, seek out medical help from your family doctor who will investigate the problem with you.

Before purchasing online it is best to investigate the merchant's return policy and history of satisfied customers.

Guests who plan to visit the park at least three times may want to investigate a season pass.

Warily, feeling his way by hand, he left the bedroom and climbed the stairs to investigate.

When she spotted something below the tree line, she walked up to investigate.

At a time when the Cartesian system of vortices universally prevailed, he found it necessary to investigate that hypothesis, and in the course of his investigations he showed that the velocity of any stratum of the vortex is an arithmetical mean between the velocities of the strata which enclose it; and from this it evidently follows that the velocity of a filament of water moving in a pipe is an arithmetical mean between the velocities of the filaments which surround it.

Newton was also the first to investigate the difficult subject of the motion of waves (q.v.).

His object was to measure the contracted part of a fluid vein, to examine the phenomena attendant on additional tubes, and to investigate the form of the fluid vein and the results obtained when different forms of orifices are employed.

He was then sent on a mission to Lyons to investigate the frauds in connexion with the supplies of the army of the Alps.

The tobacco plant itself was first brought to Europe in 1558 by Francisco Fernandes, a physician who had been sent by Philip II of Spain to investigate the products of Mexico.

After being defeated at Aylesbury in 1857, he visited India to investigate the causes of the Mutiny.

He was a member of the committee sent by the House in 1856 to investigate the troubles in Kansas, and drafted the report of the majority.

It was the brilliant exhibition in November 1833 that, in modern times particularly, attracted earnest students to investigate the subject of meteors generally, and to make systematic observations of their apparitions on ordinary nights of the year.

On the 4th of December the pope appointed a commission of three bishops to investigate the case against the heretic, and to procure witnesses; to the demand of Huss that he might be permitted to employ an agent in his defence a favourable answer was at first given, but afterwards even this concession to the forms of justice was denied.

The Republican legislature had in 1867 appointed a committee to investigate the management of the canal system, but the abuses were allowed to continue until in 1875 Governor Tilden disclosed many frauds of the " Canal Ring," and punished the guilty.

In 1787 a company of Boston merchants sent two vessels, the " Columbia " and the " Washington " under John Kendrick and Robert Gray (1755-1806) to investigate the possibility of establishing trading posts.

Koenig also used the apparatus to investigate the effect on the frequency of a fork of a resonating cavity placed near it.

We cannot investigate the vibrations in an elementary manner.

But it does not follow that it can investigate the former without the latter.

Does the failure to investigate give grounds for constructive discriminatory dismissal?

A study can investigate what would be the reason for selecting the less profitable limpets.