study
IPA: stˈʌdi
noun
- Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
- The act of studying or examining; examination.
- Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
- A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
- An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
- The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
- (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.
- (academic) An academic publication.
- One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
- (chess) An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw.
- (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
- (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
verb
- (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
- (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
- To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
- To look at minutely.
- To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
- To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
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Examples of "study" in Sentences
- Inspire students to have fun studying.
- The student is resolved to study harder.
- Half of the students here study archaeology.
- The prize submersed students to study harder.
- Students are studying antecedence curriculums.
- University students study physiography and natural history.
- Vocal pedagogy is the study of the art and science of voice instruction.
- He was an excellent student, studying under the tutelage of the Salesians.
- The College of Arts and Sciences is the program of undergraduate study at AJU.
- He approached the study of counterpoint and the art of improvisation with Mons.
- On the whole, then, the term study as here used has largely the meaning that is given to it in ordinary speech.
- As important as genetics and upbringing are, one of the most encouraging things about this study is the changing influence of experience over time.
- Games are better than sex: study p2pnet news view | Games:- One in three British PS3 owners would rather play a game than have sex, says a new ’study’.
- This study is the first in the United States to quantify the relative importance of and the utility associated with the main attributes of retail clinics.
- Dr. William Barbaresi, a Mayo Clinic pediatrician and lead author of the research, said the study is the first population-based, long-term study to examine the effects of prescribed ADHD stimulant medicine on school performance.
- In its editorial, a mention of a study done published on the web about a year ago, and I am using the term study loosely, which looked at the number of stories published by SF magazines with male editors and those with female editors and concluded that there was no real difference and that, therefore, the reason women are not getting published in SF in equal numbers to men is not gender bias.
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