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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

... discovery. Listen to this, Sam: "Co-education, as found in American colleges, is amazingly productive of romance, and the great number of marriages resulting between the men and women in co-educational schools indicates all too plainly that love-making occupies an important part of the courses of study." ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

... supper. Every Thursday evening he wrote a long letter to his mother with red ink and three wafers; then he went over his history note-books, or read an old volume of "Anarchasis" that was knocking about the study. When he went for walks he talked to the servant, who, like ...

— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... March, 1692. I discoursed said sister in my study about her grand error aforesaid, and also then read to her what I had written as above to be read to the church; and said Sister Sibley assented to the same ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham

... point in her study of them for her husband's amusement she realized that Charlotte had been coming to the storage with her nearly all her life, and that more and more the child had taken charge of the uneventual inspection ...

— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

... work are almost entirely derived from this country, so that it may be properly considered an American geology. We can commend this work without qualification to all who desire an intelligent acquaintance with geological science, as fresh, lucid, full, and authentic, the result of devoted study and of long experience in ...

— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin

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