research center
18
3.7
- noun
- /ˈriːsɜːrʧ ˈsɛntər/
:
centro de investigación
- And then there was the recent robbery at a medical research center here.
- university research center
- establish research centers
- agricultural research center
There, there was a Japanese Research Center that studied avalanches.
- There, there was a Japanese Research Center that studied avalanches.
- We would have our own Research Center where we could do even further studies on cancer, on all different chronic health conditions.
- We've got Richard Lowe's from UK Energy Research Centre and he's going to be talking about ways we could heat our homes with electricity.
- You can go through each of those studies and you can link to the study in preeminent journals by independent scientists, universities, research centers all over the world.
- I thank Stanford University and Walter H Shorenstein, Asia Pacific Research Center, for hosting this conversation.
- I I'm going to take my daughter to the dolphin Research Center.
- Founder of the Breakthrough Institute and Environmental Research Center.
- The Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre was run off the Xerox publicity budget.
- He's now a senior lecturer at the school school heading some like housing Research Center there.
- ABC News was rated the most biased in its Evening News coverage of this entire race by the Media Research Center.
Examples
-
Rajurkar established the first nontraditional manufacturing research center in the United States.
Academic text (1998) -
Minerva Cheevy is a biologist who runs an interdisciplinary research center at a large university.
Blog text (29) -
Meet us in front of the research center.
-
The reserve will also serve as a research center for the scientific community.
Academic text (1991) -
We would have our own Research Center where we could do even further studies on cancer, on all different chronic health conditions.
-
In such a context, the decision to create a major research center carried a particularly charged significance.
Academic text (1992) -
The $700,000 research center was funded with money from the State Capital Improvement Funds.
Academic text (1998) -
Join us in further developing CIRCLE into a world-leading research center in Innovation Studies.
Blog text (31) -
This is Michael Perry, he's visiting the research center.
-
The new research center will focus on climate change and its effects on agriculture.
Synonyms
23
3.4
A place where people study and test ideas to learn new things
18
3.5
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about the world
5
3.7
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about science
How Big
755
3.5
- Specialized
1
4.9
18
3.7
23
3.4
- Specialized
341
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'research' (investigation) modifies 'center' (a place or facility), yielding a place dedicated to research. This noun–noun compounding is a common and predictable pattern (e.g., centro de investigación, centre de recherche), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Research center comes from the verb research (originally meaning 'to search' or look closely) and the noun center (a 'place' or focal point). Picture a group of people meeting in one place to search for answers, and you get the clear idea: a research center is a place where people look for new knowledge.