study

• "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
• "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"
• "analyze your real motives"

Synonyms

• analyzeconsider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; subject to psychoanalytic treatment
• analyseconsider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; break down into components or essential features; make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; subject to psychoanalytic treatment
• examineconsider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; question or examine thoroughly and closely ; question closely ; put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
• canvassthe setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people ; a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel ; a tent made of canvas fabric ; an oil painting on canvas fabric ; the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) ; get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions ; solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign ; consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• "follow a course of study"
• "be enrolled at an institute of learning"

• "consider the possibility of moving"

Synonyms

• considerdeem to be; give careful consideration to; take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; show consideration for; think about carefully; judge or regard; look at attentively ; look at carefully; regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem

• "She is reading for the bar exam"

Synonyms

• learngain knowledge or skills; get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; commit to memory; be a student of a certain subject; impart skills or knowledge to; find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
• readsomething that is read; interpret something that is written or printed; have or contain a certain wording or form; look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources; interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; interpret something in a certain way; be a student of a certain subject; indicate a certain reading; audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; to hear and understand; make sense of a language
• takethe income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption ; carry out; require (time or space); take somebody somewhere; get into one's hands, take physically; take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; interpret something in a certain way; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; take into one's possession; travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; receive willingly something given or offered; assume, as of positions or roles; take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; require as useful, just, or proper; experience or feel or submit to; make a film or photograph of something; remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; accept or undergo, often unwillingly; make use of or accept for some purpose; take by force; occupy or take on; admit into a group or community; ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; be a student of a certain subject; take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; head into a specified direction; point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; be seized or affected in a specified way; have with oneself; engage for service under a term of contract; receive or obtain regularly; buy, select; to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; have sex with; lay claim to; be designed to hold or take; be capable of holding or containing; develop a habit; proceed along in a vehicle; obtain by winning; be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• "He is studying geology in his room"
• "I have an exam next week"
• "I must hit the books now"

Synonyms

• hit the bookslearn by reading books

• "He is meditating in his study"

Synonyms

• meditatereflect deeply on a subject; think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
• contemplatelook at thoughtfully; consider as a possibility; think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; reflect deeply on a subject

Synonyms

• surveya detailed critical inspection ; short descriptive summary (of events) ; the act of looking or seeing or observing; consider in a comprehensive way; look over carefully or inspect; keep under surveillance; hold a review (of troops) ; make a survey of; plot a map of (land)

• "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"
• "no schools offer graduate study in interior design"

Synonyms

• workactivity directed toward making or doing something; a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; the occupation for which you are paid; applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading); (physics) a manifestation of energy; a place where work is done; the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; be employed; have an effect or outcome; perform as expected when applied; shape, form, or improve a material; give a workout to; proceed along a path; operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; move in an agitated manner; cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; cause to work; prepare for crops; behave in a certain way when handled; have and exert influence or effect; operate in or through; cause to operate or function; provoke or excite; gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; make something, usually for a specific function; move into or onto; make uniform; use or manipulate to one's advantage; find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; cause to undergo fermentation; go sour or spoil; arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion

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

Synonyms

• reportto give an account or representation of in words; announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding; announce one's presence; make known to the authorities; be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism; complain about; a written document describing the findings of some individual or group; the act of informing by verbal report; a short account of the news; a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing); a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment; an essay (especially one written as an assignment); the general estimation that the public has for a person
• written reporta written document describing the findings of some individual or group

• "she is in a deep study"

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

• "in what discipline is his doctorate?"
• "teachers should be well trained in their subject"
• "anthropology is the study of human beings"

Synonyms

• disciplinedevelop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; a branch of knowledge; a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; the trait of being well behaved; training to improve strength or self-control ; the act of disciplining
• subjectpossibly accepting or permitting; being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; likely to be affected by something; cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; make accountable for; make subservient; the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; a branch of knowledge; some situation or event that is thought about; (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; a person who owes allegiance to that nation; (logic) the first term of a proposition
• subject areaa branch of knowledge
• subject fielda branch of knowledge
• fieldcatch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket ; play as a fielder ; answer adequately or successfully; select (a team or individual player) for a game; a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; a branch of knowledge; the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it ; a particular kind of commercial enterprise; a particular environment or walk of life; a piece of land prepared for playing a game; extensive tract of level open land; (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; a region in which active military operations are in progress; all of the horses in a particular horse race ; all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event ; a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information ; the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) ; a place where planes take off and land
• field of studya branch of knowledge
• bailiwickthe area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction ; a branch of knowledge

• "he made several studies before starting to paint"

Synonyms

• sketchmake a sketch of; describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; preliminary drawing for later elaboration; a brief literary description ; short descriptive summary (of events) ; a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

• "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"

Synonyms

• cogitationa carefully considered thought about something; attentive consideration and meditation

• "he is a quick study"

• "a study in spiccato bowing"