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Yahoo Mail had a team of like 30 people just doing _research_ on how to stop spammers.

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systematic investigation to establish facts

Meaning at a glance

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noun

systematic investigation to establish facts

noun

a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received"

verb

attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; "The student researched the history of that word"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for research.

noun

systematic investigation to establish facts

noun

a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received"

verb

attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; "The student researched the history of that word"

verb

inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

Example sentences

Yahoo Mail had a team of like 30 people just doing _research_ on how to stop spammers.

Still, I was curious to know who funded this research.

I'll back up what pg said with a data point from academic research.

Pique it enough that you'll go on and research the topic in greater detail.

Would pointing people to medical research papers [qualify]?

The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request.

Excellent entry into the world of public policy research.

Most of the time the reporters overstate the research, the scientists keep the data secret, and the general public is left scratching their heads.

In my mind, though, this is all the more reason to publish this research and, while we're at it, pour some more money into the worldwide flu monitoring network.

Only human beings have science labs and clinical research studies to come up with new defenses against the thoughtless, largely immobile threats from other living things.

It has become an invaluable research tool that permits students, teachers, librarians, and others to more efficiently identify and locate books.

The biggest issue that I see with publishing this work in a physics journal is that although time travel is certainly a concept in physics, the research involved here is not physics research.

I began summarizing the research about six months ago, and other participants here on HN have helped me take this FAQ through several revisions as it reached its current form about two months ago.

For the year prior to leaving EnterAct, I had also been working with the OpenBSD project, mostly by writing all their security advisories, but also doing a bit of part-time security research.

SNI operated the world's first commercial vulnerability research team, and had a very close relationship with Theo; we had a full time employee who had essentially led the first OpenBSD security audit.

I learned the value of research and of spending a lot of time on a single important problem: many startups take a scattershot approach, trying one weekend hackathon after another and finding nobody wants any of them, while oftentimes there are opportunities that nobody has solved because nobody wants to put in the work.