Meaning of study | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
   countable, uncountable
2. To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination
3. The effort to acquire knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research: The study of language has overturned many misconceptions.
4. The act of studying or examining; examination.
   countable, uncountable
5. To take a course or courses on a subject
6. Attentive examination or analysis: The new drug is still under study.
7. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
   countable, uncountable
8. To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice
9. A literary work treating a particular subject or character: The novel is a study of Irish childhood.
10. To look at carefully and minutely
11. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
    countable, uncountable
12. Medicine A diagnostic test.
    Medicine
13. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder
14. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
    countable, uncountable
15. Music A composition intended as a technical exercise.
    Music
16. The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
    countable, uncountable
17. A state of mental absorption: She is in a deep study.
18. A piece for special practice; an etude.
    countable, uncountable
19. A room intended or equipped for studying or writing.
20. An academic publication.
    countable, literary, uncountable
21. A noteworthy or interesting example: He is a study in contradictions.
22. One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
    countable, uncountable
23. To apply one's mind purposefully to the acquisition of knowledge or understanding of (a subject).
24. An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw.
    countable, uncountable
25. To try to memorize: studied the lines for her role in the play.
26. A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The study of languages is fascinating.”

“During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant;[…].”

“Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.”

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

“I made a careful study of his sister.”

“Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.”

“The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.”

“The proper study of mankind is man.”

“Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.”

“his cheery little study”

“I was asked round once for dinner, and my tongue was hanging out at the sheer scale of it – complete with three bathrooms, two studies, and a sauna.”

“a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture”

“Geoffrey's face was a study.”

“Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]”

“That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.”

“wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I myȝte preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte”

Well, said the king, thou mayst take my horse by force, but an I might prove thee whether thou were better on horseback or I. Well, said the knight, seek me here when thou wilt, and here nigh this well thou shalt find me, and so passed on his way. Then the king sat in a study, and bade his men fetch his horse as fast as ever they might.

“When they had stood for a while without speech, gazing over the sea, Gro spake and said, “Consider how as day now dieth in yonder chambers of the west, so hath the glory departed from Witchland.” ¶ But the Red Foliot answered him not, being in a study.”

“My study was to avoid disturbing her.”

“Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.”

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