Word Finder - investigating

definition

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.

Then Dean added, "Just like investigating accidents."

If you haven't noticed, I'm a cop and I'm here investigating a crime.

Gerhardt attempted a solution by investigating chemical reactions.

He was only supposed to be investigating him.

In this year he took such an active part in raising funds to defend John Brown, then on trial in Virginia, that he aroused the suspicions of a senatorial committee investigating Brown's raid, and was summoned to Washington to tell what he knew of the affair.

Maybe he was just investigating.

When finely rendered they are of great value to the student investigating the origins of their values.

If price is not an option, this swimwear is definitely worth investigating.

He sure is taking his time investigating.

Ornithologists now felt they had something before them that was really worth investigating.

Professors Peter Jensen and Zimmern have also done excellent work in the same field and, together with Haupt, have established the correct method of investigating the Sumerian vocables, which should be studied only in relation to the Sumerian literature.

It is of the essence of an active mind like Pascal's to explore and state all the arguments which make for or make against the conclusion it is investigating.

As one of the Bering Sea Commissioners he spent the summer of 1891 investigating the facts of the seal fisheries on the northern coasts of Asia and America.

As the result of a Commission appointed in 1902, a considerable addition has been made to the expenditure on police, which is being devoted to increasing the pay of all the lower grades and to augmenting the number of investigating officers.

One of the characteristics of Greek philosophers is their growing tendency, in investigating any subject, to turn round and ask themselves what should be the method of investigation.

But the combinations of premises in analogical and inductive inference, although the combination does not involve the conclusion, yet causes us to infer it, and in so similar a way that the science of inference is not complete without investigating all the combinations which characterize different kinds of inference.

Logic is related to all the sciences, because it considers the common inferences and varying methods used in investigating different subjects.

He has the power to veto bills, to pardon, to grant reprieves and commutations, and to remit fines and forfeitures, but the Board of Charities and Reform constitutes a Board of Pardons for investigating all applications for executive clemency and advising the governor with respect to them.

The difficulties in the way of ascertaining the truth and investigating false statements and suppressed cases are very great.

The debt which science owes to Plateau is not diminished by the fact that, while investigating these beautiful phenomena, he never himself saw them, having lost his sight in about 1840.

We shall therefore indicate a method of investigating the tension of such films.

By the latter he was recommended to Dr Thomas Beddoes, who was in 1798 establishing his Medical Pneumatic Institution at Bristol for investigating the medicinal properties of various gases.

Thus mathematics assumes space as an existent infinite, without investigating in what sense the existence or the infinity of this Unding, as Kant called it, can be asserted.

Xenocrates indeed, identifying ideal and mathematical numbers, sought to ' That Plato did not neglect, but rather encouraged, classificatory science is shown, not only by a well-known fragment of the comic poet Epicrates, which describes a party of Academics engaged in investigating, under the eye of Plato, the affinities of the common pumpkin, but also by the Timaeus, which, while it carefully discriminates science from ontology, plainly recognizes the importance of the study of natural kinds.

In 1905 he was counsel for a commission appointed by the New York Legislature to investigate the cost of gas, and in the same and the following year was counsel for a legislative committee for investigating lifeinsurance companies.

The bulb is evidence of a direct blow, probably intentionally made, and is a point of some importance to archaeologists investigating Palaeolithic implements.

Prior to that date wooden box-hives of various shapes had been adopted by advanced bee-masters anxious to increase their output of honey, and by enthusiastic naturalists desirous of studying and investigating the wonders of bee-life apart from the utilitarian standpoint.

The invention of the conic sections is to be assigned to the school of geometers founded by Plato at Athens about the 4th century B.C. Under the guidance and inspiration of this philosopher much attention was given to the geometry of solids, and it is probable that while investigating the cone, Menaechrnus, an associate of Plato, pupil of Eudoxus, and brother of Dinostratus (the inventor of the quadratrix), discovered and investigated the various curves made by truncating a cone.

It had an eerie atmosphere, almost as if it were leaning over the truck, investigating the new arrival.

He politely applauded Martha's bravery and pontificated a bit about the dangers of investigating abandoned mines, but the expected sparkle wasn't there.

The police are already investigating Jerome Shipton's accident and—" "Accident?

The police aren't investigating any part of it—here or Norfolk.

Police investigating the attempted abduction of a woman in Riddings on Sunday have issued a CD fit of the suspect.

What are investigating accountants (or reporting accountants )?

The Investigating actuary Pool Actuaries are appointed to 'a pool ' of Investigating Actuaries.

We have attempted to address these issues by investigating the adsorption of a single Cu ion in different charge states.

My research is concerned with investigating the noise versus drag relationship of aircraft airframe components.

More on the Medicines Control Agency The Cochrane Injuries group was investigating the use of human albumin in the treatment of burns victims.

At present I am investigating techniques of quantification of biofilms on marine antifouling coatings and relating these to antifouling release agents.

You will not be investigating critical appraisal in depth.

But no religion was quite so blasphemous as to pretend that it was scientifically investigating its god to see what he was made of.

The human genome sequence is proving a boon to researchers investigating disorders of the skeleton.

Scotland Yard and the FBI are investigating the break-ins, and are scrutinizing email traffic between England and Scotland.

A large red-tailed bumblebee, which I take from its size to be a queen, is investigating the lawn.

Should Barry Greenwood have been arrested while investigating a burglary?

A study was to investigating whether the use of cardiopulmonary bypass increased the risk of developing acute renal failure.

In this case, the Commission began investigating a potential cartel in the Austrian bank sector which involved eight different banks.

Normally, when investigating a case, they would send the local " UFO officer " from the nearest airbase.

Research in the Group is focussed on molecular and human chronobiology investigating the causes, consequences and treatment of circadian rhythm disorders.

We are currently investigating crystal growth in a number of natural systems including coccoliths and sea urchins.