Definition of Study

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Definition of Study

Study

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.

Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.

Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.

A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.

A piece for special practice. See Etude.

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

To apply the mind to books or learning.

To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.

To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.

To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.

To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.

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Study Quotations

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
Don Adams

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Study Translations

study in Afrikaans is studie, studeer
study in Danish is studere, studium
study in Dutch is studie
study in Finnish is opiskella
study in Italian is fare gli studi superiori
study in Portuguese is estudar, estudo
study in Spanish is estudio
study in Swedish is studera

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