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Study   /stˈədi/   Listen
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



... pages. I may go even farther, and assert that there is no inhabitant of the brook and its banks whose biography and structure are not full of absorbing interest, and will not occupy the longest life, if only an attempt be made to study ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 • Various
... Mitchy explained, "that you keep your observation for your likes—which is more admirable than prudent. But between my fear in the one direction and my desire in the other," he lightly added, "I scarcely know how to present myself. I must study the ground. Meanwhile HAS old Van told you ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... my study?' said Caldigate. Thus the two men were seated together in the little room which Caldigate used for his ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope
... looked for, and never missed; but they neither heard nor saw the chiffchaff. To those who make any study at all of birds it is, of course, perfectly familiar; but to the bulk of people it is unknown. Yet it is one of the commonest of migratory birds, and sings in every copse and hedgerow, using loud, unmistakable ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies
... have just named as existing within the church, differed from the older dogmatic one, in being a tendency toward an historical and critical study of the scriptures, instead of a philosophical study of doctrines. It embraced those whose teaching was not at variance with Christianity, and also those who manifested incipient scepticism. Two names, ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar


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