Invention vs Research - What's the difference?
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Something invented.
* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-05, volume=409, issue=8856, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of inventing.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The capacity to invent.
(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two-'' and ''Three-part Inventions .
* 1880 , (George Grove) (editor and entry author), ,
(label) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
(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.
As nouns the difference between invention and research
is that invention is 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.invention
English
Noun
(en noun)- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention .
The widening gyre, passage=British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
page 15, Invention:
- INVENTION .?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
Synonyms
* discoveryReferences
* ----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