单词 | investigator |
释义 | investigator|ɪnˈvɛstɪgeɪtə(r)| [a. L. investīgātor, agent-n. f. investigāre to investigate. Cf. F. investigateur (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] One who (or that which) investigates; one who makes close research.
1552Huloet, Inuestigatour, or expounder, disquisitor. Inuestigatours, or crafty searchers, coryces. 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 706 The investigators of nature do say that they have fifteen teeth of a side. 1751Warburton Notes Pope's Ep. Bathurst 105 (Jod.) The high court of Chancery, the most unerring investigator of truth and falsehood. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. xliv. 271 Father Simon, an accurate investigator, will have it, that they..were written by some Jewish Scribes. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 25 The principal early chemical investigators. 1971Nature 15 Oct. 469/2 Other investigators who have scanned the North Polar spur and portions of other galactic spurs..at large solar zenith angles have not observed any enhancement at soft X-ray energies. 1972Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 7/1 Department of Employment investigators, only 30 for the whole country, are too few to catch offenders. |

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