study

Meanings

Noun

• a detailed critical inspection
• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
  • "no schools offer graduate study in interior design"
• a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
  • "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"
• a state of deep mental absorption
  • "she is in a deep study"
• a room used for reading and writing and studying
  • "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study"
• a branch of knowledge
  • "anthropology is the study of human beings"
• preliminary drawing for later elaboration
• attentive consideration and meditation
• someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)
  • "he is a quick study"
• a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique
  • "a study in spiccato bowing"

Verb

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
• be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
• give careful consideration to
• be a student of a certain subject
• learn by reading books
  • "He is studying geology in his room"
• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
  • "He is meditating in his study"

Synonyms

analyse, analyze, bailiwick, canvas, canvass, cogitation, consider, contemplate, discipline, examine, field, field of study, hit the books, learn, meditate, read, report, sketch, subject, subject area, subject field, survey, take, work, written report