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STUDY

Definition:

1. [noun] a detailed critical inspection
   Synonyms: survey
   
   
2. [noun] applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design"
   Synonyms: work
   
   
3. [noun] a written document describing the findings of some individual or group; "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"
   Synonyms: report, written report
   
   
4. [noun] a state of deep mental absorption; "she is in a deep study"
   
   
5. [noun] a room used for reading and writing and studying; "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study"
   
   
6. [noun] a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
   Synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of bailiwick, branch of knowledge
   
   
7. [noun] preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint"
   Synonyms: sketch
   
   
8. [noun] attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"
   Synonyms: cogitation
   
   
9. [noun] someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play); "he is a quick study"
   
   
10. [noun] a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique; "a study in spiccato bowing"
    
    
11. [verb] consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
    Synonyms: analyze, analyse, examine, canvass, canvas
    
    
12. [verb] be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
    
    
13. [verb] give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving"
    Synonyms: consider
    
    
14. [verb] be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"
    Synonyms: learn, read, take
    
    
15. [verb] learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"
    Synonyms: hit the books
    
    
16. [verb] think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study"
    Synonyms: meditate, contemplate
    
    

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Related Words:

• anatomize
• diagnose, name
• diagnose
• survey, appraise
• survey
• compare
• check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into
• assay
• review, reexamine
• audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect
• screen
• trace, follow
• investigate, look into
• sieve, sift
• view, consider, look at
• major
• compare, liken, equate
• audit
• train, prepare
• drill, exercise, practice, practise
• memorize, memorise, con, learn
• cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
• resurvey
• assay
• case study
• white book, white paper
• blue book
• green paper
• progress report
• position paper
• medical report
• occultism
• communications, communication theory
• major
• frontier
• allometry
• bibliotics
• ology
• science, scientific discipline
• architecture
• engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology
• futurology, futuristics
• humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
• theology, divinity
• military science
• numerology
• protology
• theogony
• design
• draft, rough drawing
• vignette
• lucubration

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