• (British) IPA: /ɹɪˈsɜːtʃ/, /ˈɹiː.sɜːtʃ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹi.sɚtʃ/, /ɹiˈsɝtʃ/

research

1. (uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.

   The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people.

2. (countable, dated) A particular instance or piece of research.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   • 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 […]

• investigation
• exploration
• examination
• study
• inquiry
• scrutiny

• research octane number
• research paper
• recherche

• French: recherche
• German: Forschung
• Italian: ricerca
• Portuguese: pesquisa, investigação
• Russian: иссле́дование
• Spanish: investigación

• German: Untersuchung, Forschungsarbeit
• Italian: ricerca, indagine
• Portuguese: pesquisa
• Russian: иссле́дование

research (researches, present participle researching; past and past participle researched)

1. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
2. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
3. (transitive) To search again.

• French: rechercher
• German: forschen, erforschen
• Italian: ricercare
• Portuguese: investigar
• Russian: иссле́довать

• German: erforschen, recherchieren
• Italian: indagare
• Portuguese: pesquisar, investigar
• Russian: рассле́довать
• Spanish: investigar