study
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
entertainment
games
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English studien, from Old French estudier (Modern French étudier), from estudie (noun), borrowed from Latin studium. Displaced Old English cneordlæcan.
Inflected forms:
form: studies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: studying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: study
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: study
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: study
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: studiest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: studies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: studieth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: study
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: study
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: study
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: studying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: studied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: studies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
transitive
usually
examples: Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
I need to study my biology notes.
gloss: To take a course or courses on a subject.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
examples: I study medicine at the university.
gloss: To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Biologists study living things.
In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size.
gloss: To look at carefully and minutely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
gloss: To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: July 10, 1732, Jonathan Swift, letter to Mr. Gay and The Duchess of Queensberry
I found a moral first, and studied for a fable.
gloss: To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you […]
gloss: Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The study of languages is fascinating.
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;[…].
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.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
gloss: The act of studying or examining; examination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I made a careful study of his sister.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
gloss: Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
The proper study of mankind is man.
gloss: A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
his cheery little study
I was asked round once for dinner, and my tongue was hanging out at the sheer scale of it – complete with three bathrooms, two studies, and a sauna.
gloss: An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture
gloss: The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Geoffrey's face was a study.
Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]
gloss: A piece for special practice; an etude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An academic publication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
uncountable
examples: That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.
gloss: One who commits a theatrical part to memory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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
When they had stood for a while without speech, gazing over the sea, Gro spake and said, “Consider how as day now dieth in yonder chambers of the west, so hath the glory departed from Witchland.” ¶ But the Red Foliot answered him not, being in a study.
gloss: Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: My study was to avoid disturbing her.
Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
Synonyms: con
elucubrate
research
revise
sot
study
inquiry
investigation
exploration
Related words: student
studious
pseudoscience
astrology
numerology
knowledge
learning
education
Derived words: Bible study
forestudy
prestudy
self-study
nonstudying
outstudy
overstudy
restudy
studiable
study up on
ablation study
biostudy
bread study
bread-study
brown study
case study
cohort study
collective study
counterstudy
cyberstudy
field of study
field study
four treasures of the study
home study
interstudy
megastudy
metastudy
microstudy
motion and time study
multistudy
nonstudy
of its own study
paleostudy
poststudy
pre-study
quick study
serostudy
slow study
studier
study abroad
Studyblr
studyblr
study buddy
study centre
study circle
studygram
Studygram
study group
study guide
study hall
study house
study leave
studylike
study mama
StudyTok
study tour
StudyTube
StudyTuber
substudy
time-and-motion study
time and motion study
time-motion study
time study
trade study
understudy
work-study
work-study program
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