study

n

1. reading, review, reviewing, learning, taking in, absorption, memorization; concentration, intentness, attentiveness, application, endeavor, effort, enterprise, work, hard work; industry, industriousness, sedulousness, assiduity, plodding, Inf. plugging, pegging. Inf. grinding; thought, reflection, mulling, pondering, contemplation, rumination, deliberation, speculation, consideration; attention, observance, observation, notice, note, regard.

2. research, investigation, inquiry, exploration; examination, scrutiny, inspection, probe, dissection; analysis, interpretation, explanation, elucidation; treatise, thesis, text, survey, Civ. Eng. reconnaissance.

3. subject, field, area, branch of knowledge.

4. reverie, woolgathering, musing; meditation, introspection, pensiveness, brown study; preoccupation, absorption, engrossment, absent-mindedness, abstraction.

5. library, reading room, den; office, workroom, studio; schoolroom, study hall.

v

6. apply oneself, endeavor, work, work hard, Sl. crack a book, Inf. hit the books; learn, con, memorize, get by heart, learn by rote, Inf. grind, Brit. Sl. muzz, Brit. Sl. swot, Sl. pull an allnighter, burn the midnight oil, Inf. cram; slog, toil, drudge; review, go over, Inf. bone up; peruse, pore over, read, scan, skim, glance at, dip into; take up, occupy oneself with.

7. consider, deliberate, excogitate, take to heart, Archaic. perpend; revolve, turn over, weigh, evaluate; cogitate, reflect, ruminate, chew over, chew one's cud, be in a brown study; meditate, muse, ponder, brood, mull over; think, think about or over, cerebrate, put on one's thinking cap, be abstracted, be lost in thought.

8. contemplate, watch, keep an eye on, keep a vigil, rivet one's eyes upon, stare at, gaze at, view, look at, observe, regard; attend, pay attention to, heed; survey, reconnoiter, scrutinize, scan, examine, inspect, dissect