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Definition of "study" []

  • The act or process of studying. (noun)
  • The pursuit of knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research. (noun)
  • Attentive scrutiny. (noun)
  • A branch of knowledge. (noun)
  • A branch or department of learning: graduate studies. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "study" in a sentence
  • "Games are better than sex: study p2pnet news view | Games:- One in three British PS3 owners would rather play a game than have sex, says a new ’study’."
  • "Dr. William Barbaresi, a Mayo Clinic pediatrician and lead author of the research, said the study is the first population-based, long-term study to examine the effects of prescribed ADHD stimulant medicine on school performance."
  • "In its editorial, a mention of a study done published on the web about a year ago, and I am using the term study loosely, which looked at the number of stories published by SF magazines with male editors and those with female editors and concluded that there was no real difference and that, therefore, the reason women are not getting published in SF in equal numbers to men is not gender bias."