study

Forms

1.To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
- I need to study my biology notes.
- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
2.To take a course or courses on a subject.
- I study medicine at the university.
3.To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.
- In 2015, scientists found that 82 percent of glaciers studied in China had decreased in size.
4.To look at carefully and minutely.
- He studied the map in preparation for the hike.

1.Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
- The study of languages is fascinating.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
- 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.
2.Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
- The proper study of mankind is man.
- The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
3.A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
- Father spends all his time in the study poring over manuscripts.
- 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.
4.The act of studying or examining; examination.
- I made a careful study of his sister.

Very common· #259

Inherited from Middle English studien, from Old French estudier (Modern French étudier), from estudie (noun), borrowed from Latin studium.

Displaced Old English cneordlæcan.