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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