Word Finder - study

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(usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

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I need to study my biology notes.

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(academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.

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I study medicine at the university.

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To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.

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Biologists study living things.

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To look at minutely.

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He studied the map in preparation for the hike.

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To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.

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To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.

I guess I should stay here and study as well, but...

I study about the earth, and the animals, and I like arithmetic exceedingly.

I study French, too.

He seemed content to study her.

This had been Sasha.s study less than a few days ago.

At ten I study about the earth on which we all live.

At eight I study arithmetic.

Darian left them in the study, wired with energy.

I did not study nor analyze them--I did not know whether they were well written or not; I never thought about style or authorship.

Arithmetic seems to have been the only study I did not like.

At eleven I talk with teacher and at twelve I study zoology.

In a word, every study had its obstacles.

Mr. Gilman had agreed that that year I should study mathematics principally.

Darkyn lifted his head to study her.

She turned her head sharply to study his face.

The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use.

Erdmann conjectures Thomas Aquinas, which is extremely improbable, as Thomas was unquestionably not the first of his order to study philosophy.

The Watcher's eyes went around his study, as if this was his first visit in a great while.

Sasha was waiting for him in his study, sitting beside a fireplace that burned with black flames.

He is more important, however, as a commentator and scholar, and made valuable contributions to the study of Aristotle.

Helen acquired language by practice and habit rather than by study of rules and definitions.

The study smelt strongly of tobacco and dogs.

Vico may have derived from Grotius the idea of natural law; but his discovery of the historic evolution of law was first suggested to him by his study of Roman law.

Gabriel returned to the study of the Immortals stronghold.

Closer study showed an occasional comma and apostrophe.

For while at New College only twenty out of seventy fellows were to study law instead of arts, philosophy and theology, at All Souls College sixteen were to be " jurists " and only twenty-four " artists "; and while at New College there were ten chaplains and three clerks necessarily, at All Souls the number was not defined but left optional; so that there are now only one chaplain and four bible clerks.

In 1901 Professor Furtwangler began a more systematic excavation of the site, and the new discoveries he then made, together with a fresh and complete study of the figures and fragments in Munich, have led to a rearrangement of the whole, which, if not certain in all details, may be regarded as approaching finality.

The metaphysics of Aristotle, the ethics of Spinoza, the philosophical works of Cicero, and many kindred works, were also frequent subjects of study.

On leaving school he determined to adopt the profession of engineering, and in the pursuance of this decision went to study in Munich in 1877.

His breadth of human sympathy led him to positions which the comparative study of religions has made familiar, but for which his age was unprepared.

It has received its greatest support from the study of insanity, which is now fully recognized as conditioned by disease of the brain.

It is curious, but, unless for the study of Kant, unimportant.

It is impossible here to give even a list of the names of the many observers who in recent times have made empirical study of the effects of growth-forces and of the symmetrical limitations and definitions of growth.

Though this narrative is a mixture of truth and fiction, it may be said with certainty that a thorough study of the philosophy of Peripatetics and Pythagoreans, Stoics and Platonists, brought home to Justin the conviction that true knowledge was not to be found in them.

She stood and leaned closer to study the track.

Sofi left him alone in the study, and he sat down at Damian's computer to send the info the real estate agent needed to rent him the cabin.

He jogged down to the study, stopping at the sight of the bassinet beside Sofi's favorite chair.

On this he supported a growing family and gave himself to untiring study.

What James Martineau calls A Study of Religion is really in the main a re-statement of old theistic arguments.'

Possibly, fuller study of religions may help theologians to formulate the imperial claims of Christianity more happily than in the dry contrast between what is " revealed " and what is " natural."

From other points of view they may perhaps appear open to blame; but it is hoped they will throw light upon our present study.

M'Cosh, in his Intuitions of the Mind, attempts a more systematic study.

In Great Britain the period of study is voluntary, and usually occupies only one year.

He travelled in Finland and Lapland in 1873-4, and in 1875 made a special study of archaeology and ethnology in the Balkan States.

His leisure was devoted to the study of astronomy, and he was appointed in 1870 secretary to the duke of Devonshire's royal commission on science.

Thomson's Bibliography of Ohio (Cincinnati, 1880) is an excellent guide to the study of Ohio's history.

Oberlin published several manuals on archaeology and ancient geography, and made frequent excursions into different provinces of France to investigate antiquarian remains and study provincial dialects, the result appearing in Essai sur le patois Lorrain (1775); Dissertations sur les Minnesingers (1782-1789); and Observations concernant le patois et les mceurs des gens de la campagne (1791).

The greatest service rendered to medicine was undoubtedly the systematic study of anatomy.

In organic chemistry, his study of the ketones and aldehydes, begun in 1857, provided him with the subject of his other doctoral thesis.

The consecutive study of the argument produces on most readers a mixed feeling of dissatisfaction and admiration.