science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.əns/
enpr: sīʹ-əns
rhymes: -aɪəns
Forms: form: sciences
Etymology: From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
Senses: examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art.
glosses: A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
examples: text: My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.
glosses: Specifically the natural sciences.
examples: text: For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, […] his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
ref: 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hamlet:
glosses: Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
examples: text: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:20-21:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
examples: text: ‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
text: "That this use should be destructive is no doubt very deplorable, but Science knows no distinctions of the sort, but follows knowledge wherever it may lead."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
text: What is it that has produced this new prodigious speed of man? Science is the cause. Her feeble groping fingers lifted here and there, often trampled underfoot, often frozen in isolation, have now become a vast organized, united, class-conscious army marching forward upon all the fronts toward objectives none may measure or define.
ref: 1931 November 15, Winston Churchill, “Fifty Years Hence”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020:
text: I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality […] Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
ref: 1951 January 1, Albert Einstein, letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
text: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref: 2012 January 23, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 87:
glosses: The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
examples: text: While much good science has come from the Hubble telescope (including the most reliable measure to date for the expansion rate of the universe), you would never know from media accounts that the foundation of our cosmic knowledge continues to flow primarily from the analysis of spectra and not from looking at pretty pictures.
ref: 2001 September, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Over the rainbow”, in Natural History, volume 110, number 7, page 30:
glosses: Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
examples: text: Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop.
ref: 2008, HMV Hammersmith Apollo, in Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny – Live in London, spoken by stand-up comedian (Dara Ó Briain), United Kingdom, published 2008:
text: With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump a “climate arsonist” while the president said that “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening.
ref: 2020 September 14, “As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’”, in New York Times:
text: There are plenty of earnestly respectful vaccine selfies, where the inoculated person bares a shoulder and thanks science for their shot.
ref: 2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
ref: 2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, quoting Robert Redfield, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: The scientific community.
examples: text: From a conviction, that the science is universally understood, the strong are taught humility, and the weak confidence. Many have laughed at the idea, that Boxing is of national service, but they have laughed at the expence^([sic]) of truth.
ref: 1816, The art and practice of English boxing, page v:
text: […] for not a blow or guard in boxing will repay you more than the cross-counter, which may well be called the sheet-anchor of the science.
ref: 1888, William Edwards, Art of Boxing and Science of Self-Defense:
glosses: Synonym of sweet science (“the sport of boxing”).
synonyms: word: sweet science
extra: the sport of boxing
Synonyms: word: sci
word: sci.
word: science
Hypernyms: word: study
Hyponyms: aeronautics
agriscience
anthropology
applied science
archeology
archival science
astronautics
astronomy
behavioral science
biology
bionanoscience
bioscience
botany
brain science
chemistry
citizen science
climatology
cognitive science
computer science
cybernetics
cyberscience
data science
dismal science
Earth science
ecology
economics
environmental science
ethnoscience
exact science
fire science
forensic science
formal science
fundamental science
geology
geoscience
geroscience
glycoscience
hard science
health science
information science
library science
life science
linguistics
marine science
materials science
medicine
meteorology
nanoscience
natural science
neurology
neuroscience
oceanography
optometry
palaeontology
palaeoscience
palynology
pharmacy
photoscience
physical science
physics
planetary science
plant science
police science
political science
psychology
pure science
robotics
rocket science
social science
sociology
soft science
soil science
space science
structural science
superscience
systems science
technoscience
zoology
Coordinate terms: art
Meronyms: word: natural science
word: social science
word: physics
word: chemistry
word: biology
word: earth science
word: psychology
word: sociology
word: anthropology
Derived terms: actuarial science
agroscience
animal science
anti-science
antiscience
Bachelor of Science
basic science
behavioural science
big science
blind with science
bread science
broscience
cargo cult science
climate science
collateral science
computer science
crank science
creation science
crime science
criminal science
cryoscience
decision science
dismal science
domestic science
domestic sciences
double science
down to a science
drop science
earth science
economic science
e-science
exoscience
fantascience
fish science
fish sciences
food science
gay science
geographic information science
hard science fiction
have down to a science
health science
Hollywood science
hydroscience
inscience
interruption science
interscience
junk science
Letters and Science
liberal science
library and information science
literary science
little science
mad science
Master of Science
material science
materials science
McScience
megascience
metascience
military science
moral science
mortuary science
multiscience
naval science
nonscience
non-science
omniscience
palæoscience
paleoscience
parascience
pathological science
philosophy of science
pop-science
popular science
proscience
proto-science
protoscience
proto-science fiction
pseudoscience
pseudo-science
psychoscience
quantum information science
quasiscience
quasi-science
racial science
rubber science
science baby
science by press conference
science by press release
science center
science centre
science experiment
science-fact
science fact
science faction
science fair
science fantasy
science-fiction
science fiction
science fictional
science-fictioneer
science-fictioner
science-fictiony
science lab
scienceless
sciencelike
scienceman
science oven
science park
sciencephobia
science project
science room
sciences
science shop
science up
science-y
sciencey
sciencism
sciency
scientian
scientific
scientifically
scientism
scientist
small science
social science
soft science fiction
sports science
subscience
sweet science
telescience
thank science
translational science
triple science
university of applied sciences
unscience
ur-science
veterinary science
xenoscience
Related terms: word: engineering
word: technology
word: scientist
word: scientific method
word: observation
word: experiment
word: measurement
word: hypothesis
word: theory
word: verification
word: falsification
word: truth
word: knowledge
word: objectivity
word: education
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