investigator
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3.6
- noun
- /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡeɪtər/
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investigador
- And that's really the Holy Grail of what thousands and thousands of investigators are going after.
- principal investigator
- primary investigator
- investigators conducted
And you know, people, there's this very famous investigator of twins, Ploman.
- And you know, people, there's this very famous investigator of twins, Ploman.
- Double-blind means neither their participants nor the investigators know who is getting what.
- And this is something that we're working on with the several investigators at Stanford.
- And interestingly, most, more than half of the investigators in the Brain Initiative are engineers.
- You've got to go and, you know, educate yourself on everything that is already known to the, you know, to previous investigators.
- In this one experiment that worked, the investigators took a bizarre mouse model where they force fed it an enormously high fat diet.
- The Viking Lander, you know that doctor Levin Gavin, what is his name, the principal investigator, the head guy for testing life.
- And that is the part that people are, you know, to my mind, the investigators not really looking at it through that lens.
Examples
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All interviews were conducted by social workers trained by the principal investigator following a set protocol.
Academic text (2008) -
Potential participants were approached by an investigator, informed of the nature of the study, and invited to participate.
Academic text (2013) -
Students were also informed that an investigator would help them if they had any questions.
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Because of the small sample size of this study, investigators will continue to collect data.
Academic text (2008) -
On the day of data collection, the investigators again confirmed the accuracy of the model and activity used.
Academic text (2011) -
We as medical, legal death investigators are the eyes and the ears of the forensic pathologist on the scene.
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Collins, for example, is the principal investigator of the Applied Biodynamics Laboratory at Boston University.
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Fortunately, survivors of the massacres welcomed the investigators and the chance to tell their stories.
Academic text (1999) -
The forensic investigator analyzed the evidence to solve the mysterious case.
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As a leading investigator in her field, she published several groundbreaking studies.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who studies science and does experiments to find new facts
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2.7
A person who studies something carefully to find new information
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3.2
A person who studies information carefully to understand problems and help people make decisions
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3.4
A person who carefully looks at things to find information
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3.7
A person hired to find facts about crimes or private matters who is not a police officer
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3.3
A person who studies things to find new facts at a university or lab
A person or group who looks into a case to find the facts
Compounds
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3.7
A person hired to find facts about crimes or private matters who is not a police officer
How Investigative
- Specialized
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7.0
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3.6
693
2.7
355
3.2
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
investigator = investigate (transparent) = investigate + or
Standard agentive derivation from 'investigate' using '-or'; the occupational/research sense is directly inferable.
Etymology
Investigator comes from the Latin investigare, which meant 'to search' or 'to track'. So a scientific investigator is someone who carefully searches for facts and evidence to discover the truth.