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# investigate

verb (investigate, investigates, investigated, investigating)

«investigate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To try to find out the facts about something, especially a crime or problem. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/#m2)

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

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says Abraham looked into, pondered and understood the letters and numbers, and students are told to examine them in the same way to gain wisdom. In the primary 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

- After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and received them into his power (hands). (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/investigate/#x1)
- Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/investigate/#x2)
- The Sefer Yetzirah urges us to investigate and examine the letters, that we may have a clear insight into the subject. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/investigate/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «investigate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/investigate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «investigate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/investigate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«investigate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/investigate.html) on Mova free.