Research vs Eureka - What's the difference?
research | eureka |
(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Philip E. Mirowski
, title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits
, volume=100, issue=1, page=87
, magazine=
(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
* Macaulay
* 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.
An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
* 1821': '''Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, ''Don Juan, 1821
* 1970': A page is turned - '''eureka , a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in ''The Last of England, 1970
As a noun 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.As a proper noun eureka is
a city in northern california.research
English
(wikipedia research)Noun
citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research , the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- 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