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study is a noun and verb meaning "a detailed critical inspection". It carries 16 recorded senses.
a detailed critical inspection
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”
a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
“this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale”
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”
attentive consideration and meditation
“after much cogitation he rejected the offer”
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”
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”
learn by reading books
“He is studying geology in his room”
“I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now”
think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
“He is meditating in his study”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for study come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.