Investigate vs Forensic - What's the difference?
investigate | forensic |
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,"
Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
* {{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
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, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
* 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
* 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
(archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
* 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
As a verb investigate
is to inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.As an adjective forensic is
relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.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.
Synonyms
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Alternative forms
* forensick (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
- It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
- Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.