study
noun
1. a detailed critical inspection
Similar word(s): survey
Definition categories: act, examination, scrutiny
2. applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- no schools offer graduate study in interior design
Similar word(s): work
Definition categories: thought, acquisition, learning
3. a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
- this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale
Similar word(s): report
Definition categories: communication, document, papers
4. a state of deep mental absorption
- she is in a deep study
Definition categories: thought, absorption, concentration, engrossment, immersion
5. a room used for reading and writing and studying
- he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study
Definition categories: man–made, room
6. a branch of knowledge
- anthropology is the study of human beings
Similar word(s): bailiwick, discipline, field, subject
Definition categories: thought, domain
7. preliminary drawing for later elaboration
Similar word(s): sketch
Definition categories: man–made, drawing
8. attentive consideration and meditation
Similar word(s): cogitation
Definition categories: thought, contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness
9. someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)
- he is a quick study
Definition categories: person, memorizer
10. a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique
- a study in spiccato bowing
Definition categories: communication, composition, opus, piece
Sentences with study as a noun:
- My study was to avoid disturbing her.
- The study of languages is fascinating.
- I made a careful study of his sister.
- Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
- a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
verb
1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
Similar word(s): analyse, analyze, canvass, examine
Definition categories: cognition
2. be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
Definition categories: cognition
3. give careful consideration to
Similar word(s): consider
Definition categories: perception, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate
4. be a student of a certain subject
Similar word(s): learn, read, take
Definition categories: cognition
5. learn by reading books
- He is studying geology in his room
Definition categories: cognition, acquire, larn, learn
6. think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
- He is meditating in his study
Similar word(s): contemplate, meditate
Definition categories: cognition, cerebrate, cogitate, think
Sentences with study as a verb:
- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
- I need to study my biology notes.
- I study medicine at the university.
- Biologists study living things.