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study

English

🔊 a room used for reading and writing and studying
“he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study”
🔊 a state of deep mental absorption
“she is in a deep study”
🔊 applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
“mastering a second language requires a lot of work”
🔊 a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique
“a study in spiccato bowing”
🔊 someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)
“he is a quick study”
🔊 a detailed critical inspection
🔊 preliminary drawing for later elaboration
“he made several studies before starting to paint”
🔊 attentive consideration and meditation
“after much cogitation he rejected the offer”
🔊 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?”
🔊 learn by reading books
“He is studying geology in his room”
🔊 be a student
🔊 think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
“He is meditating in his study”
🔊 give careful consideration to
“consider the possibility of moving”
🔊 be a student of a certain subject
“She is reading for the bar exam”
🔊 consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
“analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare”