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INVESTIGATOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A police officer who investigates crimes
Synonyms:
detective; investigator; police detective; tec
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw (someone who is a detective)
plainclothesman (a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty)
tracer (an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods)
Derivation:
investigate (conduct an inquiry or investigation of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who investigates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
adjuster; adjustor; claim agent; claims adjuster; claims adjustor (one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement)
coroner; medical examiner (a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes)
detective (an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public)
examiner; inspector (an investigator who observes carefully)
ombudsman (a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government)
Instance hyponyms:
Samuel Wiesenthal; Wiesenthal (Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A scientist who devotes himself to doing research
Synonyms:
investigator; research worker; researcher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
experimenter (a research worker who conducts experiments)
boffin ((British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research)
fieldworker (a researcher who works in the field)
post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)
Derivation:
investigate (investigate scientifically)
Context examples:
This award is intended to facilitate the transition of investigators from the mentored to the independent stage of their careers in cancer research.
(Career Transition Award, NCI Thesaurus)
What is the particular point upon which I, as an original investigator, have challenged our lecturer's accuracy?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Laboratory Science Support Shared Resource provides types of laboratory support for Cancer Center investigators that are not provided by shared resources listed above.
(Other Laboratory Science Support Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
This includes studies where an investigator obtains identifiable private information or data through the intervention or interaction with the individual.
(Clinical Trial Subject, NCI Thesaurus)
Other Clinical Research Support Shared Resource provides types of support for Cancer Center investigators that are not provided by shared resources listed above.
(Other Clinical Research Support Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
The investigators found that sodium lactate activates orexin-secreting neurons in panic-prone rats.
(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)
Subjects in the study may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other interventions, but the investigator does not assign specific interventions to the subjects of the study.
(Observational study, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Study subjects in the study may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other interventions, but the investigator does not assign specific interventions to the study subjects or experimental units of the study.
(Observational Study Protocol Version, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical trial conducted according to a single protocol but at more than one site, and, therefore, carried out by more than one investigator. [ICH E9 Glossary]
(Multi-Institutional Clinical Trial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
EXAMPLE(S): Comments from the investigator regarding the condition of the specimen or any other observation.
(Performed Observation Result Comment, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
