INVESTIGATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does investigating mean? 

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

1. the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVESTIGATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

investigating; investigation

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

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

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

analysis (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole)

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)

police investigation; police work (the investigation of criminal activities)

empiricism (the application of empirical methods in any art or science)

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

examination; testing (the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned)

enquiry; inquiry (a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest)

research (systematic investigation to establish facts)

search (an investigation seeking answers)

tabulation (the act of putting into tabular form)

tap; wiretap (the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information)

Derivation:

investigate (conduct an inquiry or investigation of)

investigate (investigate scientifically)

 Context examples 

Professor Morris and PhD student Jess Beilharz are investigating the effects of Western-style diets on brain function and gut bacteria.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have been investigating the potential of tRNA synthetase inhibitors to fight bacteria, fungi, cancers, and autoimmune diseases.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

Investigating the link between gut bacteria and biological molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) in the brain; researchers found that a significant number of miRNAs were changed in the brains of mice.

(New Light on Link between Gut Bacteria, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prior to the study, astronomers had been investigating a surprising number of so-called warm Neptunes in our galaxy.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

Investigating the phenomenon in a controlled setting, 20 people were each presented with 35 visual stimuli under an LPS lamp and again under white light.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

One thing comes back to my memory which may have a bearing upon the business that you two gentlemen are investigating.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The unit used to record and describe the result of a test investigating a vital sign.

(CDISC SDTM Unit for Vital Sign Result Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It will revolutionise the methods of investigating evolution based on molecular markers and it will open a complete new field of ancient biomolecular studies.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)

A team at the Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii made the discovery when investigating HR 8799c - a gas planet seven times the size of Jupiter.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)