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[stuhd-ee]

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noun

application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.

the cultivation of a particular branch of learning, science, or art: the study of law.

Often, studies. a personal effort to gain knowledge: to pursue one's studies.

something studied or to be studied: Balzac's study was human nature.

research or a detailed examination and analysis of a subject, phenomenon, etc.: She made a study of the transistor market for her firm.

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a written account of such research, examination, or analysis: He published a study of Milton's poetry.

a well-defined, organized branch of learning or knowledge.

zealous endeavor or assiduous effort.

the object of such endeavor or effort.

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deep thought, reverie, or a state of abstraction: He was lost in study and did not hear us come in.

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a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.

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Also called étude. Music. a composition that combines exercise in technique with a greater or lesser amount of artistic value.

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Literature.

a literary composition executed for exercise or as an experiment in a particular method of treatment.

such a composition dealing in detail with a particular subject, as a single main character.

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Art. something produced as an educational exercise, as a memorandum or record of observations or effects, or as a guide for a finished production: She made a quick pencil sketch of his hands as a study for the full portrait in oils.

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a person, as an actor, considered in terms of his or her quickness or slowness in memorizing lines: a quick study.

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verb (used without object)

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to apply oneself to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or practice.

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to apply oneself; endeavor.

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to think deeply, reflect, or consider.

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to take a course of study, as at a college.

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verb (used with object)

20.

to apply oneself to acquiring a knowledge of (a subject).

21.

to examine or investigate carefully and in detail: to study the political situation.

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to observe attentively; scrutinize: to study a person's face.

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to read carefully or intently: to study a book.

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to endeavor to learn or memorize, as a part in a play.

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to consider, as something to be achieved or devised.

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to think out, as the result of careful consideration or devising.

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Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English studie < Old French estudie < Latin studium, equivalent to stud(ēre) to be busy with, devote oneself to, concentrate on + -ium -ium; (v.) Middle English studien < Old French estudier < Medieval Latin studiāre, derivative of studium

Related forms

stud·i·a·ble, adjective

stud·i·er, noun

non·stud·y, noun, plural -stud·ies.

out·stud·y, verb (used with object), -stud·ied, -stud·y·ing.

pre·stud·y, verb (used with object), -stud·ied, -stud·y·ing, noun, plural -stud·ies.

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re·stud·y, noun, plural -stud·ies, verb, -stud·ied, -stud·y·ing.

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Synonyms
1. inquiry, research, reading, thought, consideration. 7. subject, field, area. 11. library, den. 21. Study, consider, reflect, weigh imply fixing the mind upon something, generally doing so with a view to some decision or action. Study implies an attempt to obtain a grasp of something by methodical or exhaustive thought: to study a problem. To consider is to fix the thought upon something and give it close attention before making a decision concerning it, or beginning an action connected with it: to consider ways and means. Reflect implies looking back quietly over past experience and giving it consideration: to reflect on similar cases in the past. Weigh implies a deliberate and judicial estimate, as by a balance: to weigh a decision.

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Example Sentences

The study could change the way doctors treat millions of patients with heart disease.

The study of human illness depends on bloated rodents.

The subject of the study is challenged with thought experiments involving a runaway railway trolley or train carriage.

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The study could change the way doctors treat millions of patients with heart disease.

The study of human illness depends on bloated rodents.

The subject of the study is challenged with thought experiments involving a runaway railway trolley or train carriage.

Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time, a new study says.

Study factors accident risk into nuclear power cost estimates.

It turns out that this study isn't as simple as it appears.

Their brand of soulfulness is more about group study than zipping your lips.

Researchers who study the brain's perception of time have previously proposed several ways our mental clock might work.

Cholera outbreaks seem to be on the increase, but a new study has found they cannot be explained by global warming.

The three-year limit on students' study in nondegree courses will be retained.

Would luv to see this study extended for every two years.

Human populations are an important part of the study of geography.

New study results bolster the controversial hypothesis that certain cases of obesity are contagious.

It has also been discovered by experimental psychologists, who study the animals' thinking processes.

Just as artists learn by studying museum pieces, gardeners do well to study outstanding gardens.

The number of genes that humans have has once again been brought into question by a new study.

Experts said the new study may help clarify a long-clouded relationship between suicide and economic trends.

And the study shows that consumers learn lessons: they made better decisions as the experiment progressed.

The universe is racing toward something beyond it, a new study suggests.

The violence of the sun's atmosphere makes it both a difficult subject for study and a compelling one.

As the scientists behind the study hypothesize, it may be a matter of feeding habits.

After the chicks have fledged, take time to study the nests you find.

Radiation from a mobile phone call can make brain regions near the device burn more energy, according to a new study.

By chance, the authors were able to study the effects of a demand shock.

One in five lizard species are headed for extinction due to global warming, a new study says.

No organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain.

Big cities can conserve both money and water by protecting forests, a new study shows.

Olive oil may actually prevent cancer, according to a study released earlier this year.

Karpinski's new study attempts to link light-activated electrical activity to immune defenses in plants.

Researchers used high-speed cameras and slowed the video to study the jumping abilities of frogs.

Bad language could be good for you, a new study shows.

Explosive population growth is driving human evolution to speed up around the world, according to a new study.

Rising ocean temps are fueling stronger, more intense hurricanes, a new study suggests.

He said study of the birds advances understanding of how higher intelligence evolves.

What you smell may influence emotions in your dreams, according to a new study.

Antarctic seabirds are breeding later, because shrinking sea ice is causing their food supplies to dwindle, a new study says.

The study suggests that men's bodies evolved hormonal systems that helped them commit to their families.

When it comes to study abroad, university officials must constantly balance their overseas aspirations with the bottom line.

The researchers conducted the study by giving each volunteer a beeper that went off every two hours or so.

Tarantulas use the same scare tactics as hot chilies to avoid being eaten, a new study suggests.

John's wort is no more effective at treating moderately severe depression than a placebo is, according to a new study.

Now there's no official study backing that statement, so you're.

Prayers by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large study has found.

The largest medical study of the efficacy of intercessory.

Another study finds the planet has warmed, but that won't convince the skeptics.

The study is unlikely to end the increasingly charged debate about vaccine safety.

The topic of work has long been the subject of academic study.

His group's first study was conducted in an alley that is frequently used to park bicycles.

Now scientists may have uncovered the genetic basis for this impulse in a study conducted on mice.

Now a study finds that while the province may be spending millions on its garbage.

The study found that students in an arts program performed better in six categories of literacy and critical thinking skills.

The study was arranged so that the researchers did not know who had received the scent and who the dummy.

More than half of the sunlike stars in our galaxy could have terrestrial planets with the potential for life, a new study says.

According to the results of a study described today in the journal.

The study probably won't change the widespread belief in inebriated pachyderms, though.

Put the feel-good stories aside and study the details that will help your birds thrive, however large your flock grows.

Another day, another study of the potential market for cars with cords.

Children and adolescents gained an average of one to one-and-a-half pounds a week, a large study found.

The new study tests another expected consequence of e-commerce.

The oblong chunks of free-floating ice are hotspots for ocean denizens, a new study says.

Your brain may give you away when you're telling a lie, a new study suggests.

But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus.

Results of a new study suggest small children suffer negative short-term cognitive effects after watching the popular show.

The study found that fourth graders in public schools did as well or better than children in private schools in math and reading.

What the study does do, though, is add to the evidence that dieting is harmful.

Now a study says the approach may be as good for ecosystems as it is for fund-raising.

The results of a new study indicate that mountain dwellers live longer than their lowland.

The color red can make people's work more accurate, but blue can make people more creative, a study suggests.

They also boosted yields and saw better health, a new study says.

Twin study surveys genome for cause of multiple sclerosis.

Our mouths can water over non-food items, a new study finds.

Elderly people who care for a spouse who has dementia are at increased risk of developing dementia themselves, a study finds.

The by-the-numbers method of grading city schools misses a lot of nuance, a study indicates.

By the end of the study coverage was available in all three regions.

Tiny radio tags reveal that the insects rank alongside songbirds when it comes to long-distance travel, a new study shows.

Instead, this study totally ignores the published data regarding the strong.

The study didn't look at anthropogenic climate change or war in general.

People have more difficulty shedding fears toward members of other races than toward those of their own, a study finds.

But they were established with a noble purpose, as places where doctors-in-training could study actual specimens.

Finnish students begin school later, and study fewer hours, than in other rich countries.

The best way to learn what a successful last page piece is, and how it works, is to study several of them.

The armies of microbes in your digestive tract are so essential to survival that you're a super-organism, a new study says.

Getting people to speak naturally in a controlled study is hard.

That's the implication of a new study that says athletes who wear red have a slight advantage.

Some fungi eat radiation to fuel their growth, a new study suggests.

But a new study of juvenile and adult barn owls suggests that the.

Moving flight times from night to day could reduce air travel's contributions to global warming, a new study suggests.

They might as well save their time, a new study says.

But a new study says what really counts is how many species are on the right track.

Long-term exposure to concentrated smog significantly raises the risk of dying from lung disease, a new study shows.

If you get tongue-tied when trying to learn a new language, your genes may be to blame, a new study suggests.

Worldwide, women suffer higher rates of eating disorders and obesity than men do-and a recent study may help explain why.

Some deaf people have extraordinarily keen vision, and a new study of cats may explain why.

People who fake symptoms of mental illness can convince themselves that they genuinely have those symptoms, a new study suggests.

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World English Dictionary

study (ˈstʌdɪ)

—vb , studies, studying, studied
1.	to apply the mind to the learning or understanding of (a subject), esp by reading: to study languages; to study all night
2.	(tr) to investigate or examine, as by observation, research, etc: to study the effects of heat on metal
3.	(tr) to look at minutely; scrutinize
4.	(tr) to give much careful or critical thought to
5.	to take a course in (a subject), as at a college
6.	(tr) to try to memorize: to study a part for a play
7.	(intr) to meditate or contemplate; reflect

—n , studies, studying, studied, studies
8.	a. the act or process of studying
	b. (as modifier): study group
9.	a room used for studying, reading, writing, etc
10.	(often plural) work relating to a particular discipline: environmental studies
11.	an investigation and analysis of a subject, situation, etc: a study of transport provision in rural districts
12.	a product of studying, such as a written paper or book
13.	a drawing, sculpture, etc, executed for practice or in preparation for another work
14.	a musical composition intended to develop one aspect of performing technique: a study in spiccato bowing
15.	theatre a person who memorizes a part in the manner specified: a quick study
16.	in a brown study in a reverie or daydream

[C13: from Old French estudie, from Latin studium zeal, inclination, from studēre to be diligent]

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Word Origin & History

study

early 12c., from O.Fr. estudier "to study" (Fr. étude), from M.L. studiare, from L. studium "study, application," originally "eagerness," from studere "to be diligent" ("to be pressing forward"), from PIE *(s)teu- "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). The

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noun meaning "application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge" is recorded from c.1300. Sense of "room furnished with books" is from c.1300. Study hall is attested from 1891, originally a large common room in a college. Studious is attested from late 14c.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

study stud·y (stŭd'ē)
n.
Research, detailed examination, or analysis of an organism, object, or phenomenon. v. stud·ied, stud·y·ing, stud·ies
To research, examine, or analyze something.

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Idioms & Phrases

study

see brown study.

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