Detective vs Investigation - What's the difference?
detective | investigation |
(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.
As nouns the difference between detective and investigation
is that detective is detective (police officer who looks for evidence) while investigation is investigation.detective
English
(wikipedia detective)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}