research | systematic investigation to establish facts |
operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
biological research | scientific research conducted by biologists |
stemell research | research on stem cells and their use in medicine |
embryonic stemell research | biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine |
marketing research market research | research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer |
product research | marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service |
consumer research | marketing research that yields information about the motives and needs of different classes of consumers |
scientific research research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
job task chore | a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee, estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars, the job of repairing the engine took several hours, the endless task of classifying the samples, the farmer's morning chores |
undertaking project task labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, he prepared for great undertakings |
Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
auxiliary research submarine | a submarine for research purposes |
lab laboratory research lab research laboratory science lab science laboratory | a workplace for the conduct of scientific research |
Naval Research Laboratory NRL | the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines |
research center research facility | a center where research is done |
test rocket research rocket test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
inquiry enquiry research | a search for knowledge, their pottery deserves more research than it has received |
empirical research | an empirical search for knowledge |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA | the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense, responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since |
Bureau of Intelligence and Research INR | an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community |
task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task |
research colloquium | a colloquium at which the results of (scientific) research are reported |
Advanced Research and Development Activity ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
Casualty Care Research Center CCRC | an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care |
research director director of research | a supervisor in a research center |
research worker researcher investigator | a scientist who devotes himself to doing research |
research search explore | 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 |
call on the carpet take to task rebuke rag trounce reproof lecture reprimand jaw dress down call down scold chide berate bawl out remonstrate chew out chew up have words lambaste lambast dcc | censure severely or angrily, The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car, The deputy ragged the Prime Minister, The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup |
research | attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner, The student researched the history of that word |
tax task | use to the limit, you are taxing my patience |
task | assign a task to, I tasked him with looking after the children |