Associations to the word «Investigation»

Wiktionary

INVESTIGATION, noun. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Dictionary definition

INVESTIGATION, noun. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal".
INVESTIGATION, noun. The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin