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Study

noun

(pl. studies)

1.

A detailed critical inspection. Synonym: survey.

2.

Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading). Synonym: work. "No schools offer graduate study in interior design"

3.

A written document describing the findings of some individual or group. Synonyms: report, written report.

4.

A state of deep mental absorption.

5.

A room used for reading and writing and studying.

6.

A branch of knowledge. Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field. "Teachers should be well trained in their subject" , "Anthropology is the study of human beings"

7.

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration. Synonym: sketch.

8.

Attentive consideration and meditation. Synonym: cogitation.

9.

Someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play).

10.

A composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique.

verb

(past & past part. studied; pres. part. studying)

1.

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning. Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvas, canvass, examine. "Analyze the evidence in a criminal trial" , "Analyze your real motives"

2.

Be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning.

3.

Give careful consideration to. Synonym: consider.

4.

Be a student of a certain subject. Synonyms: learn, read, take.

5.

Learn by reading books. Synonym: hit the books. "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"

6.

Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes. Synonyms: contemplate, meditate.

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"Study" Quotes from Famous Books

... seventeen; and the system of private education having so decidedly failed, it was resolved that he should spend the years antecedent to his going to Oxford at home. Nothing could be a greater failure than the first weeks of his "course of study." He was perpetually violating the sanctity of the drawing-room by the presence of Scapulas and Hederics, and outraging the propriety of morning visitors by bursting into his mother's boudoir with ...

— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield

... entered the Paedagogium at Halle in 1710, remaining there six years. Then his uncle, fearing that he would become a religious enthusiast, sent him to the University of Wittenberg, with strict orders to apply himself to the study of law. Here he learned to recognize the good side of the Wittenberg divines, who were decried by Halle, and tried to bring the two Universities to a better understanding, ...

— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries

... had to study far more useless books.—[MS. erased,] {Ere my young mind was fettered ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... "T. Ti., Temple"[2]—and it was delivered! Dr. Bentley was mightily flattered on receiving a letter superscribed "To Dr. Bentley in England." Times are altered; postmen are now satisfied with a hint. One modern retrenchment is a blessing; one is not obliged to study for an ingenious conclusion, as if writing an epigram—oh! no; nor to send compliments that never were delivered. I had a relation who always finished his letters with "his love to all that was near and dear to us," though he did not care a straw for me or any of his family. It was ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... wall of our verandah we found four young ones. This was particularly noteworthy, because from my study-window the pair had been watched for the last month, first courting, then flitting in and out of the hole with straws and feathers, ever and anon clinging to the mouth of the aperture, and laboriously dislodging some projecting point of mortar; then marching up and down on ...

— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume

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