What is the difference between investigate and explore?
investigate | explore |
To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.
To conduct an inquiry or examination.
* 1903 , , "The Shadow and the Flash,"
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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In transitive terms the difference between investigate and explore
is that investigate is to examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret while explore is to (seek) experience first hand.In intransitive terms the difference between investigate and explore
is that investigate is to conduct an inquiry or examination while explore is to wander without any particular aim or purpose.investigate
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Verb
(investigat)- to investigate the causes of natural phenomena
- to investigate an unsolved murder
- "Why don't you investigate'?" he demanded. And ' investigate I did.
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Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.