study
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstʌdi/
study
- (usually, academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
- I need to study my biology notes.
- (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
- I study medicine at the university.
- To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
- Biologists study living things.
- In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size.
- To look at minutely.
- He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
- To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
- July 10, 1732, Jonathan Swift, letter to Mr. Gay and The Duchess of Queensberry
- I found a moral first, and studied for a fable.
- July 10, 1732, Jonathan Swift, letter to Mr. Gay and The Duchess of Queensberry
- To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Thessalonians 4:11 ↗:
- And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you […]
- French: étudier, faire des études
- German: studieren
- Portuguese: estudar
- Russian: учи́ться
- Spanish: estudiar
- French: étudier
- German: studieren, lernen, erforschen
- Italian: studiare
- Portuguese: estudar, aprender
- Russian: (intransitive) учи́ться
- Spanish: estudiar
- French: étudier
- German: studieren
- Portuguese: estudar, examinar
- Russian: изуча́ть
- Spanish: estudiar, examinar
study
- Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
- The study of languages is fascinating.
- 1661, John Fell (bishop), The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond ↗
- 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 […]
- 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversations ↗
- 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.
- The act of studying or examining; examination.
- I made a careful study of his sister.
- Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
- The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (
please specify ), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗:
A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household. - Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
- his cheery little study
- An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
- a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
- The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
- Geoffrey's face was a study.
- Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]
- (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
- (academic) An academic publication.
- That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.
- One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
- (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.18?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xx], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- 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
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.18?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xx], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
- My study was to avoid disturbing her.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
- French: étude
- German: Studium
- Italian: studio
- Portuguese: estudo, aprendizado
- Russian: уче́ние
- Spanish: estudio
- French: étude
- German: Arbeitszimmer
- Italian: studio, studiolo
- Portuguese: escritório
- Russian: кабине́т
- Spanish: estudio
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