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# investigate

«investigate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To try to find out the facts about something, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (investigate, investigates, investigated, investigating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To try to find out the facts about something, especially a crime or problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#m1)

2) (science, maths) To study or test something carefully to learn about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and maths lessons: «Investigate how temperature affects melting» — plan a fair test, collect results, draw a conclusion. In stories: detectives and police investigate. Phrases: investigate further, investigate a crime.

### examples

- Investigate which ball bounces highest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x1)
- The police are investigating the burglary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x2)
- We investigated how plants grow in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x3)
- Investigate the pattern in the times tables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x4)
- Mum went to investigate the strange noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x5)
- The detective investigated every clue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x6)
- Let the facts of the case be thoroughly investigated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#x7)

### note

Regular. Noun: investigation; person: investigator. Maths investigations: try examples, look for a pattern, make a rule, test it.

### In the corpora

- [Elephants investigate new things carefully with their trunks and can smell water several kilometres away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «investigate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.