RESEARCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does researcher mean? 

• RESEARCHER (noun)
  The noun RESEARCHER has 1 sense:

1. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

  Familiarity information: RESEARCHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESEARCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scientist who devotes himself to doing research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

investigator; research worker; researcher

Hypernyms ("researcher" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "researcher"):

experimenter (a research worker who conducts experiments)

boffin ((British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research)

fieldworker (a researcher who works in the field)

post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)

Derivation:

research (inquire into)

research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner)

 Context examples 

Participants may choose which group they want to be in, or they may be assigned to the groups by the researchers.

(Nonrandomized clinical trial, NCI Dictionary)

Researchers think brain circuits may not work properly in people who have OCD.

(Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

In medicine, a group of non-scientist volunteers that serves as a link between a community and clinical trial researchers.

(CAB, NCI Dictionary)

The Association supports basic and clinical research through training and 'seed' grants for researchers who are at the early stage of their careers.

(American Lung Association, NCI Thesaurus)

When the volunteers started reporting that they were finding objects in the shape of yellow balls, the Spitzer researchers took note.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Describes a clinical trial or other experiment in which the researchers know what treatments are being given to each study subject or experimental group.

(Nonblinded, NCI Dictionary)

Comparing the health of control animals with the health of treated animals allows researchers to evaluate the effects of a treatment more accurately.

(Control animal, NCI Dictionary)

Proposed mechanism for providing resources for "mechanisms" researchers to provide evidence that a proposed new cancer relevant molecule is a good target for drug discovery.

(Molecular Target Discovery Grants, NCI Thesaurus)

The cancer Models Database (caMOD) allows researchers to retrieve and submit animal models of cancer. caMOD currently supports the Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium (MMHCC).

(Cancer Models Database, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers then compared those levels with health outcomes.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)