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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experimental approach |
| Synonyms: | R and D, analysis, cut and try, examination, experiment, hit and miss, hit or miss, probe, research, research and development, study, tentation, test |
| Main Entry: | experimentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | test |
| Synonyms: | R & D, R and D, analysis, examination, experiment, investigation, research, research and development, testing, trial, trial and error, try out |
| Main Entry: | interrogatory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inquiry |
| Synonyms: | Q and A, analysis, audit, catechizing, check, cross-examination, delving, disquisition, examination, exploration, fishing expedition, grilling, hearing, inquest, inquisition, inspection, interrogation, investigation, legwork, poll, probe, probing, pursuit, query, quest, question, questioning, quizzing, request, research, scrutiny, search, study, survey, third degree, trial balloon |
| Main Entry: | investigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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agape, all-searching, analytic, burning with curiosity, catechetical, curious, disquisitionary, doubtful, erotetic, ichneutic, in course of inquiry, in dispute, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in issue, in pursuit, in quest of, in question, in search of, inexorable, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interrogative, maieutic, moot, nonplussed, on the lookout for, on the scent, overcurious, peery, perquesting, proposed, prying, pursuing, pysmatic, pytacorian, quizzable, quizzacious, quizzatorial, quizzical, requisitive, requisitory, rogatory, undecided, under consideration, under discussion, under investigation, undetermined, untried, zetetic
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| Concept: | Experiment. |
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-nouns
experiment; essay (attempt); analysis (investigation); trial, tentative method, tatonnement., verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, criterion, diagnostic, test, crucial test., crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; curcuma paper, turmeric paper., empiricism, rule of thumb., feeler; pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind., speculation, random shot, leap in the dark., analyzer, analyst; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist.
-verbs
experiment; essay (endeavor); try, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength., grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, tatonner, aller a tatons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes., try one's fortune (adventure) [more]; explore (inquire).
-adjectives
experimental, empirical., probative, probatory, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic; tentative.
-adverbs
under probation, on one's trial.
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| Concept: | Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question] |
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-nouns
inquiry; request; search, research, quest, pursuit., examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation., sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction; Baconian method., strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study (consideration)., scire facias, ad referendum; trial., questioning; interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy; leading question; discussion (reasoning)., reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying; espionage, espionnage; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes., question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma (secret); knotty point (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry., inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist; scrutator, scrutineer, scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc (curiosity).
-verbs
make inquiry; inquire, seek, search; look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul., scratch the head, slap the forehead., look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned., seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace; follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue; beat up one's quarters; fish for; feel for (experiment)., investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry; look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate., examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out., bring in question, subject to examination; put to the proof (experiment); audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration (think over); take counsel., ask, question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question., put to the question, interrogate, catechize, pump; cross-question, cross-examine; dodge; require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the pulse. be in question; undergo examination.
-adjectives
inquiry; inquisitive (curious); requisitive, requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching., undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry; under discussion, uneder consideration, under investigation; Sub judice, moot, proposed; doubtful (uncertain).
-adverbs
what? why? wherefore? whence? whither? where? quaere? how comes it? how happens it? how is it? what is the reason? what's the matter? what's in the wind? what on earth? when? who? nicht wahr?
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| Antonyms: | answer |
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| Concept: | Judgment. [Conclusion.] |
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-nouns
result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism, illation; corollary, porism; moral., estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication; dijudication, adjudication; arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration; assessment, ponderation; valorization., award, estimate; review, criticism, critique, notice, report., decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree; res judicata., plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote (choice); opinion (belief); good judgment (wisdom)., judge, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator; assessor, referee; censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer.
-verbs
judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind., deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween., form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate, rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon (believe); review; size up, settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence, doom; find; give judgment, deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm (assent)., comment, criticize; pass under review (examine); investigate (inquire)., hold the scales, sit in judgment; try a cause, hear a cause.
-adjectives
judging; judicious (wise); determinate, conclusive.
-adverbs
on the whole, all things considered.
-phrases
"a Daniel come to judgment" [Merchant of Venice]; "and stand a critic, hated yet caress'd" [Byron]; "it is much easier to be critical than to be correct" [Disreeli]; la critique est aislée et l'art est difficile; "nothing if not critical" [Othello]; "O most lame and impotent
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| Antonyms: | misjudgment |
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| Concept: | Learning. |
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learning; acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill [more]; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry., apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation., docility (willingness); aptitude.
-verbs
learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning., acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote., read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves., study; be studious; consume the midnight oil, mind one's book., go to school, go to college, go to the university; serve an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed; be taught.
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at one's books; in statu pupillari (learner).
-phrases
"a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo! "hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].
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| Antonyms: | teaching |
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