Initialism vs Research - What's the difference?
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A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
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(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
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* 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
As nouns the difference between initialism and research
is that initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter while research is (uncountable) diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc; laborious or continued search after truth.As a verb research is
to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.initialism
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Noun
(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.
See also
* abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *research
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(wikipedia research)Noun
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- The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
- The first step I took in this so necessary a research , was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution