science
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciēns, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).
Inflected forms:
form: sciences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sciences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sciencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scienced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scienced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art.
gloss: Specifically the natural sciences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.
gloss: Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene […]
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.
Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
gloss: The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Meronyms: physical science, life science, natural science, social science
‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
Communities can thereby come up with rules that allow true beliefs to emerge from the rough-and-tumble of argument, such as that you have to provide reasons for your beliefs, you’re allowed to point out flaws in the beliefs of others, and you’re not allowed to forcibly shut people up who disagree with you. Add in the rule that you should allow the world to show you whether your beliefs are true or false, and we can call the rules science. With the right rules, a community of less than fully rational thinkers can cultivate rational thoughts.
gloss: Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The scientific community.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop.
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.
There are plenty of earnestly respectful vaccine selfies, where the inoculated person bares a shoulder and thanks science for their shot.
“I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
gloss: Synonym of sweet science (“the sport of boxing”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: 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.
[…] 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.
gloss: To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: I mock'd at all religious Fear, Deep-scienced in the mazy Lore Of mad Philosophy
gloss: To use science to solve a problem.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
humorous
transitive
Synonyms: sci
sci.
science
Related words: engineering
technology
scientist
scientific method
observation
experiment
measurement
hypothesis
theory
verification
falsification
truth
knowledge
objectivity
education
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Derived words: actuarial science
agroscience
animal science
antiscience
anti-science
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
family and consumer science
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
non-science
nonscience
omniscience
palæoscience
paleoscience
parascience
pathological science
pharmaceutical sciences
philosophy of science
pop-science
popular science
proscience
proto-science
protoscience
proto-science fiction
pseudo-science
pseudoscience
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
self-science
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
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: wetenskap
lang: Arabic
word: عِلْم
roman: ʕilm
lang: Armenian
word: գիտություն
roman: gitutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: ciencia
lang: Bashkir
word: фән
roman: fən
lang: Basque
word: zientzia
lang: Belarusian
word: наву́ка
roman: navúka
lang: Belarusian
word: дысцыплі́на
roman: dyscyplína
lang: Catalan
word: ciència
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 科學 /科学
roman: kēxué
lang: Czech
word: věda
lang: Danish
word: videnskab
lang: Dutch
word: wetenschap
lang: Estonian
word: -teadus teadusala
lang: Finnish
word: -tiede
lang: Finnish
word: tieteenala
lang: French
word: science
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: Wietenskup
lang: West-Frisian
word: wittenskip
lang: German
word: Wissenschaft
lang: Greek
word: επιστήμη
roman: epistími
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπιστήμη
roman: epistḗmē
lang: Hebrew
word: מַדָּע
roman: madá
lang: Hindi
word: शास्त्र
roman: śāstra
lang: Hindi
word: साइंस
roman: sāins
lang: Hungarian
word: tudomány
lang: Hunsrik
word: Wisseschaft
lang: Icelandic
word: fræði
lang: Ingrian
word: tiito
lang: Ingrian
word: oppi
lang: Interlingua
word: scientia
lang: Irish
word: eolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: scienza
lang: Japanese
word: 科学
roman: kagaku
lang: Khmer
word: វិទ្យាសាស្ត្រ
roman: vɨttyiəsaah
lang: Korean
word: 과학
roman: gwahak
lang: Latin
word: disciplina
lang: Latvian
word: zinātne
lang: Malay
word: bidang sains
lang: Malayalam
word: ശാസ്ത്രം
roman: śāstraṁ
lang: Maltese
word: xjenza
lang: Marathi
word: शास्त्र
roman: śāstra
lang: Norman
word: scienche
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vitenskap
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vitskap
lang: Polish
word: dyscyplina
lang: Portuguese
word: ciência
lang: Punjabi
word: ਵਿਗਿਆਨ
roman: vigiāna
lang: Romanian
word: materie
lang: Russian
word: нау́ка
roman: naúka
lang: Russian
word: дисципли́на
roman: disciplína
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eòlas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на̀ука
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зна̏но̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nàuka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: znȁnōst
lang: Slovene
word: znanost
lang: Spanish
word: ciencia
lang: Swedish
word: vetenskap
lang: Tagalog
word: agham
lang: Tagalog
word: siyensiya
lang: Tamil
word: அறிவியல்
roman: aṟiviyal
lang: Tamil
word: விஞ்ஞானம்
roman: viññāṉam
lang: Telugu
word: శాస్త్రము
roman: śāstramu
lang: Turkish
word: bilim
lang: Turkish
word: ilim
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مبحث
roman: mebhas
lang: Ukrainian
word: нау́ка
roman: naúka
lang: Ukrainian
word: дисциплі́на
roman: dyscyplína
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngành khoa học
lang: Vietnamese
word: môn khoa học
lang: Volapük
word: nolav
lang: Welsh
word: gwyddor
lang: Yiddish
word: וויסנשאַפֿט
roman: visnshaft