Definition of study

"study" in the noun sense

1. survey, study

a detailed critical inspection

2. study, work

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"

3. report, study, written report

a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

"this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"

4. study

a state of deep mental absorption

"she is in a deep study"

5. study

a room used for reading and writing and studying

"he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study"

6. discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick

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"

7. sketch, study

preliminary drawing for later elaboration

"he made several studies before starting to paint"

8. cogitation, study

attentive consideration and meditation

"after much cogitation he rejected the offer"

9. study

someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play

"he is a quick study"

10. study

a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

"a study in spiccato bowing"

"study" in the verb sense

1. analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass

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"

2. study

be a student follow a course of study be enrolled at an institute of learning

3. study, consider

give careful consideration to

"consider the possibility of moving"

4. learn, study, read, take

be a student of a certain subject

"She is reading for the bar exam"

5. study, hit the books

learn by reading books I must hit the books now"

"He is studying geology in his room"

"I have an exam next week

6. study, meditate, contemplate

think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

"He is meditating in his study"

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Quotations for study

Study neatness. [ L. Murray ]

Study to be quiet. [ Bible ]

Study to be what you wish to seem. [ John Bate ]

Study sickness while you are well. [ Proverb ]

The proper study of mankind is man. [ Pope ]

Study is the apprenticeship of life. [ Fleury ]

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]

Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. [ John Dryden ]

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. [ Talmud ]

Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Study to break it and not break my troth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Amusement, to an observing mind, is study. [ Beaconsfield ]

War ought to be the only study of a prince. [ Machiavelli ]

When night hath set her silver lamp on high.
Then is the time for study. [ Bailey ]

Study the past if you would divine the future. [ Confucius ]

The study of vain things is laborious idleness. [ Proverb ]

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. [ Cicero ]

A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly. [ Proverb ]

The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance. [ Shelley ]

There is a symbolism in rings worthy of study and attention. [ Laura Jewry ]

The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. [ Charron ]

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other. [ Beaconsfield ]

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. [ Cicero ]

Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it. [ Proverb ]

Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art. [ Aristotle ]

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study. [ Aughey ]

If a gentleman be to study any language, it ought to be that of his own country. [ Locke ]

If you wish to write well, study the life about you, - life in the public streets. [ Horace Mann ]

Study carefully the character of him you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame. [ Horace ]

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it. [ Pope ]

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. [ William Shakespeare ]

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. [ Cicero ]

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Rending nourisheth the wit; and when it is wearied with study, it refresheth it, yet not without study. [ Seneca ]

To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice. [ Aristotle ]

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. [ Hitopadesa ]

Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. [ Landor ]

That man has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. [ Chamfort ]

Study is the bane of childhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment: wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners. [ Bryant ]

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. [ Motherwell ]

Everything is heaving and great events are pending, and it is hard to study Genesis when all is now Revelation. [ Dr. M. W. Jacobus ]

The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man. nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. [ Theodore Parker ]

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. [ Ruffini ]

The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and be instrumental to the good of others. [ Hannah More ]

I have a shelf in my study for tried authors; one in my mind for tried principles; and one in my heart for tried friends. [ Sir Richard Cecil ]

The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. [ Montaigne ]

There is a wide difference between the knowledge of men and the knowledge of man. To know man, it suffices to study one's self. [ Duclos ]

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well established authors. [ Whately ]

I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. [ Horace ]

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. [ Quarles ]

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]

Music would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction, and send their minds back to study in good tune. [ Milton ]

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. [ Seneca ]

Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study, that naturally leads the soul into the knowledge of that which at first seemed locked up from it. [ R. South ]

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. [ Horace ]

All those observers who have spent their lives in the study of the human heart, know less about the signs of love than the most brainless, yet sensitive woman. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by woman in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain the makes you want to study the brain. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]

But since, however protracted, death will come. Why fondly study, with ingenious pains. To put it off? - To breathe a little longer is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. [ Hannah More ]

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. [ Bacon ]

I consider the study of mathematics the basis of the soundest mode of reasoning, the foundation of metaphysical deductions; it contains eternal truths, concluded by pure intelligence. [ Sir R. Maltravers ]

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. [ Montaigne ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. [ Moses Harvey ]

Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. [ J. S. Mill ]

The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect. [ Jeremiah Day ]

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance around his book-shelves. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]

I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well. [ Montaigne ]

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves! [ Horace Smith ]

The study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]

Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature, - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. [ Horace Mann ]

I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]

I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]

The study of the mathematics cultivates the reason; that of the languages at the same time the reason and the taste. The former gives power to the mind; the latter, both power and flexibility. The former, by itself, would prepare us for a state of certainties, which nowhere exists; the latter, for a state of probabilities, which is that of common life. [ T. Godfrey ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]

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Words within the letters of study

2 letter words in study (1 word)

3 letter words in study (1 word)

4 letter words in study (3 words)

5 letter words in study (Anagrams) (2 words)

study + 1 blank (1 word)

study + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence study

Words that start with study (4 words)

Words with study in them (5 words)

Words that end with study (5 words)

Word Growth involving study

Shorter words in study

stud

Longer words containing study

outstudy outstudying

overstudy overstudying

restudy restudying

studyaid studyaids

studying outstudying

studying overstudying

studying restudying

studying understudying

understudy understudying