by Ktm5 September 22, 2015
Research Tangent: digressing suddenly from one topic of discussion to run to the nearest internet source in order to thoroughly research information either to: (A) reinforce a particular point or (B) attempt to relieve oneself from ignorance. Can be either directly or indirectly relevant.
... a trend that is sweeping the nation! Because knowledge is power!
... a trend that is sweeping the nation! Because knowledge is power!
Example: She totally went off on a research tangent in the middle of a movie last night when she wasn’t sure if sodium thiopental was the same as sodium pentothal.
by Miss Evelyn Grey November 02, 2011
all forms of evil brought together in the form of a paper you gather pointless information.usually assigned by the most obnoxious teacher that no one likes
by georgia rain March 22, 2009
the act of researching and writing a fucking long paper for a high school or college course, mostly written for english classes on a book, story, or idea in literature. Sources have to be cited correctly or you get cited for plagiarism and get raped up the ass for stealing other's ideas.
Fuck, my paper is due Monday, I am going to spend all weekend research papering.
Don't call me this weekend, I am research papering.
Don't call me this weekend, I am research papering.
by (B)^2 March 28, 2009
Evil, pure evil. Its basically not a discussion, but a gathering of all your infomation on a certain topic.
by FAIFJAEI November 04, 2003
a paper that you will write almost every year in high school or maybe not. usually a new format every year because the old one you spent hours doing is wrong. you have to cite your sources which your most likely fake and just put some fake names and books you only copied the title from.
by hooptiehandler90 October 21, 2008
Any program of research in which any possible pattern of results, including null results, leads to interesting, publishable findings. Related to the concept of a Xanatos gambit, where any possible outcome to a scheme or plan leads to a victory for the mastermind of the plan.
Did you hear about the new experiment we're running on the XYZ phenomenon? It's totes Xanatos research. Either we're going to show that XYZ is real... or if the effect isn't there we have enough subjects to do equivalence testing to show that the existing results in the literature about XYZ are specious.
by SdDj October 28, 2011