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Research vs Rummage - What's the difference?

research | rummage |

In lang=en terms the difference between research and rummage

is that research is to search again while rummage is to hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.

As nouns the difference between research and rummage

is that research is (uncountable) diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc; laborious or continued search after truth while rummage is (obsolete) commotion; disturbance.

As verbs the difference between research and rummage

is that research is to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently while rummage is (nautical) to arrange (cargo, goods, etc) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.

research

Noun

  • (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= 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.}}
  • (countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
  • * Macaulay
  • The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
  • * 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)
  • 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

    Synonyms

    * researches * investigation * exploration * examination * study * inquiry * scrutiny

    Derived terms

    * desk research * empirical research * field research * historical research * primary research * proresearch * qualitative research * quantitative research * scientific research * secondary research

    Verb

    (es)
  • To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
  • To make an extensive investigation into.
  • To search again.
  • References

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    Anagrams

    * * reachers * re-search

    rummage

    English

    Verb

    (rummag)
  • (nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
  • (nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
  • To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
  • * Howell
  • Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
  • * (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
  • What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
  • A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
  • * Walpole
  • He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
  • An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
  • (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage .
  • Quotations

    ''"And this, I take it,
    ''Is the main motive of our preparations
    ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
    Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
    - Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106

    See also

    * rummage sale