research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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(noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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search | (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, hunting |
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(noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | - |
(noun) an investigation seeking answers | - |
(noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses | - |
(noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: lookup |
searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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(noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
(noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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starch | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amylum |
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(noun) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering | - |
starches | (noun) foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) | - |
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symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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thelarche | (noun) the start of breast development in a woman at the beginning of puberty | - |
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